I am the ultimate father. I take on pregnancy full speed ahead including morning sickness and giving birth to my sons and daughters. My pregnancy lasts from 10-25 days and I give birth to 2,000 babies at a time. Ah-mazing!!!!

Did you know that hammerheads are becoming endangered? The scalloped hammerhead is among the newest creatures and the first sharks to join the endangered species list in the past year. 95% of the hammerhead population has declined since 1985 in the Atlantic and Pacific Ocean. Because of the high demand for shark fins, the scalloped hammerhead population (which is a highly migratory population in coastal regions) has declined significantly with fins warranting $50-$100 per pound. NOAA has reported that this is wholesale value. Hammerheads also die in bycatch. They are often caught in gillnets and targeted when they are juveniles for their meat. Even when accidentally caught and released, most hammerheads cannot survive the trauma. So please help save the sharks and join organizations that protect and prevent shark finning. 

It was my 6th grade field trip and we went to the University of Miami's Science Lab. I was very excited not only to be going on a field trip with my teacher Ms. Sacowitz, but to go in the ocean looking for sea animals. It was then when I really started to appreciate nature. So we were sent in groups into the water with a net to observe sealife and we were told not to kill anything even by accident! And the funniest thing was, here all along I had gone fishing all my life since I was 5 and told not to kill anything. Well of course I wasn't going to!!! So we scraped the bottoms and dug up the sand and then we swooped our nets around the water and bingo....I caught something! I couldn't believe my eyes!!! It was a seahorse (in the flesh)! I was so excited to see a real live seahorse in the ocean I yelled near and far to my teacher who couldn't hear me, but I had to let it go. But for that 30 seconds I was intoxicated with the ocean, with that seahorse that appeared in front of my eyes. Something people never get a chance to see in the wild, and I had that chance, brilliantly under the sunshine on that Miami day. I will never forget it as long as I live and when I think back to that day, I truly believe that it was my teacher who inspired me to save the sea. Otherwise I would have forgotten about it and would have never made a seahorse plush.