Sea horse being smuggled through Nepal

CURRITUCK, N.C., May 15 (UPI) -- The horse, already blind in one eye, had its other eye damaged in a fight with another stallion May 2 near the small community of Corolla in Currituck County. Karen McCalpin, director of the Corolla Wild Horse Fund, ...

Blanched, boiled, or candied, cicadas are a healthy snack, experts say. Skewered scorpions, sea horses, grasshoppers, and cicadas (center) for sale in Beijing in 2009. Photograph by Victor Fraile, Corbis John Roach for National Geographic Anyone ...

Seahorse Armor Inspire Robotic Designs Share 0 Seahorse Armor Inspire Robotic Designs Sea horses get their exceptional flexibility from the structure of their bony plates, which form its armor. The plates slide past each other. Here the seahorse's ...

The Sea Horse restaurant in Helsinki serves up the best of Finnish food, alongside portions of local history and art. To taste typical and traditional Finnish food in Helsinki, I am advised to dine at Sea Horse, the iconic restaurant set up way back in 1934.

SAN DIEGO, May 2 (UPI) -- Engineers at the University of California, San Diego, said the tail of a seahorse, made up of bony, armored plates that slide past each other, can be compressed to about half its size before permanent damage occurs.

Evraz, Ace Dancer, Bering Sea and Invincible Prince shone when the horses were exercised here on Thursday morning (Feb. 21).Outer sand:600m: Impressive Delite (R. Anand), Winn...

A hawker sells scorpions, star fish, sea horses and silkworm cocoons for adventurous customers to eat at a market stall in Beijing on January 8, 2012. (MARK RALSTON/AFP/) Eating more insects and putting them on restaurant menus could help fight ...

It is well documented that sailors of the Royal Navy often found themselves pastimes to avoid boredom while at sea for months on end. Games such as ludo and tombola were very much in vogue. Just by chance, I discovered another very popular game that ...

The record price for a horse at the Arqana breeze-up sale was toppled at Saint-Cloud May 11, when a 2-year-old colt by 2009 European Horse of the Year Sea The Stars sold for €520,000 (US$675,196). Trainer Marco Botti prevailed in a bidding duel ...