Male seahorses possess the remarkable ability to give birth to thousands of babies at once. Learn more: http://on.natgeo.com/1QUf8KC | National Geographic

You get a seahorse! You get a seahorse! Everybody gets a seahorse!⠀ ⠀ In seahorses, it’s the male who gestates and gives birth. Pictured here is a male lined seahorse doing just that. ⠀ ⠀ Lined seahorses can have up to two hundred babies at a time and are ready to receive new eggs from their mate shortly after giving birth. ⠀ ⠀ The baby seahorses, known as fry, are teeny tiny versions of the adults. In the wild, less than 0.5% of fry will survive to adulthood. So it's no wonder seahorses have so

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