Some cichlid fish mothers snack on their own offspring to ensure their own survival. New research suggests that the mothers can boost their chemical defences by using antioxidants found in their own ...

University of Maryland researcher Cheng-Yu Li was in the lab one day when he noticed a fish with a protruding jaw: A telltale sign that it was incubating eggs in its mouth, keeping its offspring safe ...

A team of researchers at Charles Darwin University, in Australia, has found that male fish that mouth-brood are not always guaranteeing that the eggs they carry were fertilized by them. In their paper ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American I first encountered a male jawfish with a ...

There are concerned, overprotective parents, and then there are cichlid fish. After a male cichlid fertilizes the female’s eggs, she holds her entire brood of embryos inside her mouth for two weeks ...

In an extreme feat of parenting, some female cichlid fish carry their eggs and babies in their mouths for about two weeks. In this way, the young fish and fish-to-be are protected from predators in ...

Some animal parents go to extraordinary lengths to shield their young from predators, disease, and dangerous currents.

A study of Australian fish that care for offspring through mouthbrooding shows that things underwater are not always as monogamous as they seem. By Elizabeth Preston See more of our coverage in your ...

Raising babies can be exhausting—so much so that some mouthbrooding mothers snack on their young, according to a new study. A central African cichlid fish, Astatotilapia burtoni—commonly called Burton ...

The post The Fish That Carries Its Babies Inside Its Mouth for Weeks appeared first on A-Z Animals. Animal parents have many unique ways to protect their children. Whether it's a kangaroo inside its ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American I first encountered a male jawfish with a ...