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 Lurking among the underwater ...

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 ...

Raising babies in your mouth is no guarantee that they’re your own — as some Australian mouthbrooding fish can attest 1. Males belonging to some species of river-dwelling fish guard their young by ...

While many creatures lay eggs or give birth to live young in familiar ways, some have developed unique methods to protect their offspring. One such strategy is mouthbrooding, where parents carry and ...

Early offspring separation from mothers causes social deprivation. Mouthbrooding, when eggs and fry are incubated in the buccal cavity of the parent, is one of the reproductive strategies in fish. The ...

Freshly hatched cuckoo catfish. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the 02 May 2018, issue of Science Advances, published by AAAS. The paper, by R. Blažek at Academy of Sciences ...