The word hippocampus comes from late Latin: hippocampus, derived from the Greek words for a horse+sea monster. In mythology it was a sea horse, having two forefeet, with the body ending in a dolphin's ...

SINGAPORE, March 27 (Reuters) - A strip of the Pacific Ocean seabed that was mined for metals more than 40 years ago has still not recovered, scientists said late on Wednesday, adding weight to ...

Believe it or not, when I was little you could go into almost any souvenir shop in Florida and find huge baskets filled with ...

West Philippine Sea is the name given by an administrative order (AO) of then President Benigno Aquino III to Philippine territorial waters west of the country. Aquino’s AO said West Philippine Sea ...

This manuscript presents a detailed characterization of male and female wildtype and Ctrp10 knockout mice, and reveals that knockout mice develop female-specific obesity that is largely uncoupled from ...

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Too many questions surround the abrupt U-turn on cooperation with the International Criminal Court, from sovereignty to political persecution.