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Pregnant male fish can choose to make good babies better or abort (and consume) them

Seahorses and their cousins in the syngnathid group are the only known animals in which the male gets pregnant and bears the offspring . In these unusual reproductive circumstances, however, the next generation often does not thrive–or even survive. [More]





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