Tropical Storm Bret formed north of the Bahamas on Sunday and was expected to drench the northernmost islands before curving out into the open Atlantic, forecasters at the U.S. National Hurricane Center said.

Bret was not expected to strengthen into a hurricane, nor was it forecast to threaten the U.S. coast or the energy interests in the Gulf of Mexico.

Ocean sequestring gets more difficult to understand

Twenty years ago, evolutionary biologists transplanted small poplations of Anolis sagrei lizards from Staniel Cay in the Bahamas to several nearby islands, in the hope that the reptiles would go