This is the first time the aquarium was able to coax a female sea dragon to release large numbers of eggs that were captured and put in a 'brood pouch' by a male.
For the first time, UC San Diego’s Birch Aquarium has coaxed a female weedy sea dragon into transferring a large number of eggs to a male sea dragon who could give birth to a bounty of babies.
It is an oddity of nature — and a scientific leap for the Birch, which is part of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography.that sea dragons, sea horses and pipefish are the only animals on Earth whose males get pregnant and give birth. “I was blown away and started cheering,” said Leslee Matsushige, associate curator at Birch. “We’ve been working on this for so long.
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