Pregnant male seahorses support up to 1,000 growing babies by forming a placenta
- Written by: Jessica Suzanne Dudley, Postdoctoral Fellow, Macquarie University
ShutterstockSupplying oxygen to their growing offspring and removing carbon dioxide is a major challenge for every pregnant animal. Humans deal with this problem by developing a placenta, but in seahorses — where the male, not the female, gestates and gives birth to the young — exactly how it worked hasn’t always been so clear.
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