Sunday, January 06, 2008

TRUE or FALSE? YOU DECIDE!



The mythological hippocampus is part hippopotamus and part whale.





The regal hippocampus is a sea horse of Greek and Roman mythology. Possessing the body of a horse with the tail of a fish or dolphin, these fish are often depicted pulling the chariots of Neptune and Poseidon, the sea gods. Sometimes drawn with a serpent’s tail or the bottom half of a dragon, their front feet are usually webbed and they have fins on their backs instead of manes. A section of the brain is called the hippocampus because its shape somewhat resembles a sea horse.

The regal hippocampus
The regal hippocampus

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