Like among the blue acaras, firemouth males have more pointed and longer fins than the females. |
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The ship has two shafts with controllable pitch propellers, two rudders and a pair of active stabilising fins. |
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Scales from mid-body to the tail and the caudal and dorsal fins have black spots. |
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The fins have strong leading rays, which form a row of sharp spines along the dorsal fin. |
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Second, key morphological transitions, such as the purported change from paired fins to limbs with digits, remain undocumented by fossils. |
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Sizing computations for bilge keels and anti-roll fins were made for one hull form for various stabilized configurations. |
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Paired pectoral fins and a dorsal fin were present, and the caudal fin was asymmetrical with a large upper lobe. |
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They have strong pectoral fins with spines that are serrated on the outer side. |
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One of the fossil's most intriguing aspects is the large, paired spines on the shark's pectoral fins, the side fins used for steering. |
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The game takes place in a swimming pool with players wearing snorkels, masks and fins. |
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Using its fins to balance, this fish is almost perfectly camouflaged against the background. |
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Juveniles have colored bands above the pectoral fins that change to a spot when the fish mature. |
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Once fully developed, they are released from the female and must attach to the gills or fins of a fish host within a few days or they will die. |
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The ancient bone shares features with primitive fish fins, but also has characteristics of a true limb bone. |
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Like all gobies it has two distinct dorsal fins, and a distinguishing feature of this species is that the front fin has a pale band at its top. |
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Researchers say the fish shows how fins on freshwater species first began transforming into limbs some 380 million years ago. |
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Could there ever be a situation where it would be to the advantage of a swimming vertebrate to have such fragile fins? |
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A male frogfish courts a mature female by spreading all of his fins, jerking his body, and nibbling her as she swaggers across the ocean floor. |
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In a normal heatsink, all the fins most be located close to the heat source to maximise dissipation. |
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The fins are very flexible and potentially useful for supporting the body on land, as in lungfish and tetrapods. |
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They machined down the original fins of the power supply's heat sinks to create flat areas for attaching waterblocks. |
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While the fins help dissipate the heat, you may be wondering where the fan is. |
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This is another idea that in theory should help increase thermal conduction between the base and the fins, since they are all one piece. |
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It relies on radiation and passive convection from the heatsink fins that surround it, to dissipate heat. |
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Older males in particular also have tentacles on the first few spines of their dorsal fins. |
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Its snouty head, patchy grey body and small pedal fins make the dwarf look more like a large dolphin than a baleen whale. |
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Looking closely at the fins you'll see that Hush's attention to detail is admirable, with each fin ridged for ultimate heat exchange. |
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As you can see, they pack the copper fins pretty tight, allowing for pretty good heat dissipation, rated for 938.89 BTU per hour. |
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The serrated fins actually increase the surface area to allow for more heat dissipation. |
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Because of copper's heat retaining properties, thin fins are the way to go, coupled with an adequate fan. |
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The 6200 had even deeper fins with twin dynamic counterweights that went to 2500 rpm and 1200-horsepower. |
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The empennage was all-metal with three fins and rudders attached to the full-cantilever stabilizer. |
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The skin of the balloonfish is dominated by larger spots or dark blotches that occur only on the body, not on the fins. |
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The sailboat has a fin keel and a rudder that resemble the dorsal and pectoral fins of orcas. |
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The dorsal fins were supported by a basal element articulating with one vertebra each. |
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The paired fins of the Australian lungfish, Neoceratodus forsteri, are similar to those of Latimeria. |
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The fish measured two metres in length and the fins would have been between 700 and 800 millimetres long. |
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The centrifugal force of the roll causes the fins to unfold for aerodynamic stability in flight. |
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It seemed that every time he fanned away some sand with either his fins or his hands he revealed something remarkable. |
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When using jet-propulsion, a frogfish appears to levitate and drift along using its fins as stabilizers. |
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Beneath your fins lies a mile or two of ocean, a bottomless, infinite space of blue, blue, and more blue. |
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There are a total of six heat pipes running from the base to the aluminum fins. |
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They feature a central core, with a number of rippled fins radiating out from the center. |
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Along her arms were folds of skin which were actually folded fins along with webbed hands. |
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As their fins thrashed through the water in fast pursuit, I saw the whale shark descend rapidly to the depths. |
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Its height above water level gives Mike, the captain, a perfect vantage point from which to scan the water for dorsal fins breaking the surface. |
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Two downward sweeping stabilizing fins sat near the engines, adding to the triangular appearance of the ship. |
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The flying gurnard is characterized by its spectacular pectoral fins that look like wings. |
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In these the fins have lost their lobes, and one lung has been lost and the other converted to a swim bladder. |
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Most surfers are injured from contact with their own surfboard's side rails and fins. |
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The pectoral fins and flukes of males are also larger than those of females. |
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First stage control was by movable tail fins, while the second stage was equipped with a gimballed nozzle. |
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Roach a small fish of the cyprinoid family, has a generally silvery appearance with the back dull green and the lower fins red. |
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Each included a laser seeker, guidance unit, control canards bolted to the bomb's nose, and enlarged tail fins bolted to the rear. |
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At the boats side, those huge fins beat the water to a foam, before being gaffed aboard by the boats regular hand, Patrick. |
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The big grey animals with sickle-shaped dorsal fins and prominent beaks are bottlenose dolphins. |
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On the building exterior, shading devices such as roof overhangs and fins or louvers above windows reduce glare. |
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It literally sandblasts the car every time it goes on track and gradually erodes all the surfaces and the cooling fins on the radiators. |
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The copper strip is folded into corrugated fins and cut with louvers, or turbulizers, to increase heat-dissipation capacity. |
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As soon as you gob into your mask, trip over your fins, or wipe your nose on the back of your glove you'll discover a camera lens inches away. |
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Discussions of pectoral fin swimming in fishes have largely focused on the benefits of the fins during hovering, slow swimming and maneuvering. |
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They have distinct black markings on the ends of their fins, particularly the first dorsal and caudal fins. |
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They have no eyelids, and all species have four fingers on each forelimb, five toes on each hind limb, and caudal fins. |
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The rice field eel has an anguilliform body with a large mouth and small eyes and no pectoral and pelvic fins. |
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The sound of fins slapping against the water can be just as terrifying as low-pitched violin notes. |
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The pelvic fins are small and far behind the center of gravity, while the pectoral fins are too large to minimize frictional drag. |
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Such torques are proposed to be counteracted anteriorly by lift forces generated by the head and pectoral fins. |
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The stiff black rubber fins allowed bodysurfers to catch bigger waves, then angle across their faces. |
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While the kids grabbed blocks, he rummaged in a locker behind the pipe and pulled out a sort of aqualung, some rubber gloves, and swim fins. |
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Hornsharks are named for the sharp spines located in front of their dorsal fins. |
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The fins conduct heat from the tubes and then transfer it to the air flowing through the radiator. |
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Actually, it's round and the idea behind it is that heat gets dissapated to the outer fins, where it gets cooled. |
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We also witnessed humpback whales blowing and diving, breaching and slapping their fins and flukes. |
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Aerodynamic fins located on the aft bay of the strap-ons also provided for flight control. |
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These forms had two dorsal fins rather than one, and all the fins were supported by an internal skeleton and musculature. |
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A wakeboard is similar in shape to a snowboard, with the addition of two small fins on the underside. |
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Attached to the end of the barrel are stationary fins that provide stability during flight. |
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I reminisce about the sight of a hawksbill turtle and the sound it made as it swept its fins over the sand for a comfortable spot to lay eggs. |
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As her tail sinks into the semifluid sand, she twists her body and drills herself downward until she is buried up to the pectoral fins. |
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During its service with the Navy, it was fitted with various radar radomes necessitating the larger fins. |
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Aerostats are packed to their fins with special radar payloads that would have mere hot air balloons, airships or blimps hissing with envy. |
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Two synchronized video cameras record orthogonal planar views of the fins at 250 images per second. |
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It was small in the palm of his hand, and was the spitting image of a fish, with miniature scales and fins. |
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Bitspower's skiving technique seems a great way to remove the thermal junction between base and fins. |
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Next, he explored a different aesthetic with less prominent fins, visible rocket thrusters, and less visible similarity to marine life. |
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All serious bodysurfers have used surf-quality swim fins since their invention by Owen Churchill. |
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The two outboard rudders and the two outboard fins were interchangeable right and left. |
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The black fins of the fish are boldly feathered, like thick strokes of Japanese calligraphy. |
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If you aren't going to serve the fish whole, slice off the fins on both sides. |
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The control surfaces and the four fins open into position as the missile leaves the tube. |
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Simply described, the fins improve directional stability by channeling and smoothing the airflow around the tailcone. |
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Training equipment such as kickboards, pull buoys, and fins help all swimmers to isolate or emphasize certain movements. |
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We wear fins and masks, and we also wear pink caps so we can be visualized by one another and not lose anyone. |
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Since cooling was no problem in the slipstream of an airplane or airship, the gun could be stripped of its distinctive barrel jacket and fins. |
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Do this exercise with and without fins, with and without a kick board, on your back, side, and stomach. |
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The scales vary in form and size from the orbit, head, gill-covers, fins and trunk areas. |
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We then reviewed how to use ovals for the fish bodies and how to add a tail and fins. |
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You take a look around the pool and are surprised to see that a number of swimmers are using fins, especially on kick sets. |
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Some use fins, but many consider freediving without fins the purest form of diving. |
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The tail fins are hinged and have a curved surface, which results in the missile spinning in flight for aerodynamic stabilisation. |
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It's important, too, to allow for flexibility within a workout, be it with fins, paddles or buoys. |
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The larvae have suctorial discs and reduced tail fins, which presumably are adaptations for living in swift flowing streams. |
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Similar to the patterns on humpback whale flukes, unique markings on the dolphins' dorsal fins allow for individual identification. |
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Whales have streamlike bodies with highly compressed neck vertebrae, dorsal fins, and a tail with two finlike flukes arranged horizontally. |
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These air-launched weapons are equipped with adjustable fins that allow them to alter course in flight and home in on their targets. |
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The system is complemented by a set of midship stabilising fins and stern stabilising flaps to control the pitch and roll of the ship. |
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The next steps involve the whole stroke, removing the fins, underwater kicking to stroke start and finally the block start. |
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Yellow Tang and surgeonfish sometimes employ scalpel-like fins against those who grab them. |
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But when you wear fins, your kick improves enough to make kicking worth the effort and you end up using use your legs more. |
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When hunting, they crawl on their outspread pectoral fins and sift through the sand. |
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The zander has the rough feel and spiked dorsal fins of the perch, protecting small fish from predation, particularly from pike and herons. |
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The latter device has a flat wheel with a set of perpendicular fins which protrude into the soil. |
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There was nothing in the marketplace of the 1950s that indicated a desire for tail fins on cars in the U.S. and Europe. |
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This fish may be distinguished from codling by the long filaments of the ventral fins and the more rounded tail fin. |
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As a result, excessive chrome, fins, and wide whitewalls became synonymous with what it meant to be an American. |
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Even if people hardly knew who Harley Earl was, they associated tail fins with General Motors. |
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A drill to develop this body position involves swimming with fins and a snorkel. |
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Ciliation was most prominent on the pharyngeal region and on the tail fins. |
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Some fishes seek to compensate at low swimming speeds by extending their fins to increase area and hence the trimming force. |
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It loomed above them, an enormous serpentine shape with pearled scales and filmy translucent fins. |
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In both living and fossil forms, the pectoral and pelvic fins are prominent characteristics of the locomotor anatomy. |
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Display of its large pectoral and dorsal fins gives the impression of even greater size. |
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While all the fish in a display case has been gutted, pan-ready fish have the fins and scales removed and have been thoroughly washed. |
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Namazu stood on his three prominent fins, the two pectorals and his caudal flippers. |
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Look at the shape and size of the dorsal fin, pectoral fins, and the caudal fin. |
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To gut the fish, make a slit up the length of the belly under running water and cut off the fins with scissors. |
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The suppression of detail causes the stepped facade of the building to read like forbidding ridges or dangerous protective fins. |
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To my horror and amazement, everyone on the boat laughed, grabbed their masks and fins and jumped in. |
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Covered in thin scales, their bodies were slender and flexible, with stabilising fins. |
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In fact it was rather ugly, with coarse brown scales and thick awkward looking fins. |
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The limbs of tetrapod vertebrates evolved from fins, with the digits as a novel feature. |
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Ribs curled free of the chest like those of a skeleton, and the vertebrae protruded in a line of jagged dorsal fins. |
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The female attempts to pick up these false eggs, and, as she nips the male's fins, he ejects sperm into her buccal cavity. |
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The lateral line arches over the pectoral fins, and each scale has a prominent white or blue spot. |
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Anyway, he watched his new vicious pet and this pathetic looking streak of yellow fins for three days solid. |
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The fins themselves had to change from a fan of slender fin-rays to more solid load-bearing digits. |
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There are 37 soldered fins on each side of the heatsink for a grand total of 74 copper fins connected to the copper base by means of solder. |
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They looked quite comical as they stood up with their fins and masks still on and their regulators still in their mouths. |
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The U.S. prohibits fishing sharks solely for their fins, which are a delicacy in Asia. |
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The males develop nuptial coloration consisting of red-colored fins and eyes. |
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Those found in the Indo-Pacific are considered to have the most active venom, in the modified hollow spines at the tips of their dorsal fins. |
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The waves whipped up by the north-westerly made entry interesting, especially when trying to get our fins on. |
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If the fins in the rads are damaged, bent over, rotted away, full of dead flies or cow cack, the cooling system will suffer. |
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We anchor alone in the lee of the cay, pile into the inflatable dinghy, don our masks and fins, and spend the next hour swimming with dolphins. |
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The vessel is fitted with two pairs of active stabilising fins and twin rudders and has bow and stern thrusters. |
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We recommend that beginners and all children 8 and under use short fins to perform this stroke. |
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Haddock are typically cod-like with three dorsal fins and two ventral fins. |
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He would then swim in very tight circles, rapidly vibrating his pectoral and caudal fins. |
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The sculptures seem like bellicose battleships, flaunting jagged-ribbed fins and sawtooth incisors. |
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Brilliant reds and blues splotched its body and head, with similarly hued bands on its dorsal fins. |
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We decide on a scorpion fish, a rich ruby red, its spiky fins laid harmlessly by its side, its wide round eye staring up at us dolefully. |
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They're bigger than dolphins and seals, smaller than other whales, have tall dorsal fins and are black and white. |
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Thus, at this speed, the dorsal fin supplements the thrust produced by the oscillating pectoral and caudal fins. |
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The newest types of tags are attached to things like shark fins and sea turtle shells. |
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This is the pattern seen in the dorsal fins of fishes, in Dimetrodon and among iguanid lizards. |
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Brackish spray flew over his face as fins and scales and gnashing teeth tore at the air. |
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The tail is pigmented and dusky, but the other fins are usually clear. |
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Rays and skates have a cartilaginous skeleton with wide depressed bodies, whip-like tails and well-developed pectoral fins that are fused to their head. |
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The missile has four rectangular fins for aerodynamic control at the rear, and four wings at just over halfway from nose to tail on the length of the body. |
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So defined, the fin-limb transition has to be explained in terms of the evolution of the digital arch and the derivation of digits from radials in fins. |
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Earl went on to influence design by giving recognisable features to cars such as chrome, tail fins, curved windshields, and the infamous Motoramas. |
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Even the Model T would evolve into a gas-guzzler with tail fins. |
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The original bunker busters used in the first gulf war were made from the barrels of large navel guns filled with 250 lbs of explosives and fitted with guiding fins. |
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Boxfishes and three-spine sticklebacks hover very well by oscillating their pectoral fins with large attack angles on both recovery and power strokes. |
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The hybrids were good looking fish but careful examination of the mouths would show tell-tale signs of small barbs and their top fins were more carp-shaped. |
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The only other fish with three distinct dorsal fins are hakes and cods. |
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Katkandu motors through a gap in the barrier reef between South Water Caye and Carrie Bow Caye as we pull on shortie wetsuits, weight belts, tanks, fins. |
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Hard to miss, especially by night divers, whose lights catch the gleam from its huge opalescent eyes, is the ratfish, which cruises by on wing-like pectoral fins. |
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As I landed it I was amazed at its excellent condition and perfect fins. |
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Thin membrane-like fins were obtruding from his forearms and lower legs. |
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If the tide is not tugging too fiercely at your fins by now, you might wish to continue sternwards and view the most impressive area of the wreck. |
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There is a protective shroud on top between the heatsink and the fan, which has a round opening to allow the air to get to the fins of the cooler from the fan. |
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The Flower Cooler comes with a fan that attaches to the case itself rather than the heat sink, and hovers a centimetre or so above the fins to ensure maximum airflow. |
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Triplefin blennies, however, as the name suggests, can be distinguished by their three dorsal fins, the first two composed of spines and the third composed of soft rays. |
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Year round, divers can swim with white tips, black tips, silvertips, grey reef sharks and other pelagics which dot the bright coral with their prominent dorsal fins. |
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For perciform fishes, the pectoral fin and tail are known to play important roles in propulsion and there is now a substantial literature on the function of these fins. |
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More derived taxa commonly possess fins located higher on the body, near the center of mass of the animal, with more vertically oriented insertions. |
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Luckily they have staff employed expressly to film you as the dolphins lift you through the water with their noses, or chum you along with their silky-soft fins. |
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Fish swam by her body, curious and their fins tickled her legs. |
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All of the fins, except the pectorals, were small and placed posteriorly. |
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The posterior part of their caudal fin and pelvic fins are black. |
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Often frogfish walk, using the two pectoral fins and pelvic fins. |
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The body is long and snake-like, lacking caudal, dorsal and pelvic fins. |
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The fins and horizontal tail consoles are attached to tail beams. |
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Finally, scuba booties will protect your feet from the sun and chafing from your fins, and will come in handy for launching and landing your kayak. |
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Acanthostega had limbs and eight digits on each hand and foot, and also had fish characteristics like gills, fins, and sensory organs that only worked underwater. |
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The snakehead is native to the Yangtze River region of China and is capable of wiping out all the species of one pond and moving on its belly and fins to the next pond. |
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A few seconds into the flight, the fins appear to warp and distort. |
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The original bunker busters used in the first gulf war were made from the barrels of large navel guns filled with 250 lb of explosives and fitted with guiding fins. |
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It has two dorsal fins and a caudal fin or tail like that of a shark. |
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After that, despite my best efforts, Hernandez succumbed to dropsy and Eduardo developed terrible fungus which consumed his fins and turned his beautiful blue body brown. |
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People become distinctive only by the colour of their fins or drysuits. |
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Generally, osteolepiforms have homocercal, or even trilobate, tail fins. |
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It had pectoral and dorsal fins with fin-rays characteristic of fish. |
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Problems arise occasionally, but contemporary masks, fins, snorkels, regulators and buoyancy compensators are far better than they were even a few years ago. |
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When overcrowding occurred in the water, some of these fish, using their fins as rudimentary feet, took to the land and changed from gill breathing to lung breathing. |
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Not a true eel, it has long pelvic fins, which help it find food. |
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It has dark patches along its sides and back, but perhaps its most telling feature is the long spines that protrude from all over its body, excluding the fins and face. |
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Sandia's Mike Rightley said he has developed tiny liquid-filled pipes that shift heat to the edge of the computer where air fins or a tiny fan can disperse it into the air. |
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Concrete structural fins act as shading devices on the north-south axis. |
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The top and bottom of the Cool Drive have fins for heat dissipation. |
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His ire was reserved for the exaggerated and superficial aspects of American style, such as neon-lit motels, drive-ins, cars with fins, and stove-pipe trousers. |
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The building is festooned with cartoon-like images of fish, including dorsal fins that poke out of the roof. |
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Small and with a fishtail and fins, he is a goalkeeping genius defying physical laws. |
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For oscillating pectoral fins, a recurring pattern within planar flow fields is the production of paired counterrotating vortices with a central high-velocity fluid jet. |
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Along the street behind the gates rows of shops sell fresh produce, including unusual items such as sacks of soybeans, sea cucumbers and shark's fins for soup. |
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The fins comprise only a minor portion of a shark's total body weight. |
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Dressed in neoprene, with crash helmet, tank, fins and climbing belt, I was poised above the thundering, algae-green water of a gorge near Hallein, Austria. |
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There are several long fins extending from the top of its head like antennae, and they may have lures at the end. |
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Now, the children are ready to try it on their own, using fins. |
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To maximize your feel for this drill when first trying it, try wearing fins, which will also allow you to better maintain your balance while trying the drill. |
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Using fins for drills and some kicking sometimes helps these swimmers. |
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They offer everything from diving equipment and lessons, to snorkeling gear and swim fins for an enjoyable underwater experience merely feet from your room. |
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You realize that swimming without fins has become unbearable. |
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You'll just need a pair of training fins to wear on your feet. |
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Six spring-loaded fins are attached to the rear of the rocket motor. |
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Its central element is the single-frame radiator grille, the outer chrome ring of which surrounds the painted grey fins of the grille with horizontal chrome strips. |
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Framing the rear of the station are the blue internal heat radiator fins. |
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They cruise slowly through the water, cavernous mouths agape, skin covered in a foul-smelling mucous and often trailing long threads of algae from their long pectoral fins. |
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One was not a pufferfish but a frogfish that had swallowed some prey so large it was having difficulty using its silly, paddle-like pectoral fins. |
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There's the odd handfish that uses its fins to walk and the cute-as-a-button Californian sea otters. |
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In these cases, the male is equipped with a pair of modified pelvic fins known as claspers. |
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As each curve reaches the back fin, backward force is applied to the water, and in conjunction with the fins, moves the fish forward. |
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Another unusual feature among rabbitfishes is their pelvic fins, which are formed from two spines, with three soft rays between them. |
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The filmmakers find severed shark fins covering a roof in China and piles of gills cut from manta rays in Indonesia. |
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Another kind of cell called a leucophore makes a different girls-only special effect, a white streak between the fins. |
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Letters and striping are bias tape topstitched to top layer of blue cotton fins. |
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Dorsal and ventral fins translucent, pale brownish with evident white speckles, myotomes evident. |
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Imagine a classic Caddy and the mind's eye conjures up visions of Eldorado fins, whitewalls and skirts. |
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In the case of retarded bombs released at too high a speed, the retarding fins might tear away and allow the bomb to go ballistic. |
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The bones in their fins eventually evolved into legs and they became the first tetrapods, 390 million years ago, and began to develop lungs. |
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Two had their adipose fins clipped, identifying them as North American hatchery fish. |
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Currently, a bottleneck exists in terms of the ability to quickly analyze thousands of salmon DNA samples, extracted from scales or adipose fins. |
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The only downside is that more than half the coho caught have had intact adipose fins, meaning they had to be released. |
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About 10,000 rainbow trout with clipped adipose fins will be released this week in the McKenzie River between Leaburg Dam and Blue River. |
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The lemon shark, also protected, has two dorsal fins of nearly identical size. |
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The slide hammer, the ground rod and the jacks ram the condensers and bend the fins. |
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Since its formation in 1974, British Airways' aeroplanes carried a Union Jack scheme painted on their tail fins. |
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With a 6-foot fusclage, 8-foot detachable wings and tail fins, it fits into a super-sized golf bag. |
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The whole shark was donated to the Victoria Museum for research, instead of the fins being sold for use in shark fin soup. |
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The pectoral, pelvic, anal, and the lower aspect of caudal fins are trimmed in snow white or cream leading edges. |
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Bodysurfers ride the big waves without surfboards, wearing fins on their arms but little else other than a pair of Speedos. |
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The larvae typically have protective spines on the head, over the gills, and in the pelvic and pectoral fins. |
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The humpback has a distinctive body shape, with long pectoral fins and a knobbly head. |
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Humpbacks can easily be identified by their stocky body, obvious hump, black dorsal coloring and elongated pectoral fins. |
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Several hypotheses attempt to explain the humpback's pectoral fins, which are proportionally the longest fins of any cetacean. |
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Humpbacks hunt by direct attack or by stunning prey by hitting the water with pectoral fins or flukes. |
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The fins are carried by the thoracic vertebrae, ranging from nine to seventeen individual vertebrae. |
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When some individuals are sick, others in the group assist them by using their fins to help keep them afloat so they survive. |
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Batoid gill slits lie under the pectoral fins on the underside, whereas a shark's are on the sides of the head. |
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The fillets and fins were identified as school shark, rig, hammerhead shark, and bronze whaler. |
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It can clamber through and cling to the seaweed stalks with its prehensile pectoral fins. |
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Females are generally larger than males, lighter in color, with smaller eyes and higher fins. |
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The fins and tails are processed into fin needles and are used in less expensive versions of shark fin soup in Chinese cuisine. |
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The few ray fins that do exist are mainly in the Beryciformes and Lampriformes, which are also ancient forms. |
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Now sharks are being increasingly targeted to supply emerging Asian markets, particularly for shark fins, which are used in shark fin soup. |
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The pelvic fins, as a pair of filamentous rays, in Chilara taylori and Ophidion scrippsae, are inserted on the isthmus vertically under the eye. |
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Kandy flake colors, rocket fins, flamethrowers, nothing was too wild for the Kustom King. |
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Pectoral fins elliptical, posterior margin reaching urogenital papilla in males, reaching pelvic fin base in females. |
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As for the gay-friendly skies, Southwest Airlines is practically painting its planes' tail fins pink. |
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And that could be the salvation for bowmouth sharks, hunted for their large pectoral fins. |
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They compared the forces experienced by the pectoral fins of the mudskipper fishes to the forelimbs and hind limbs of walking tiger salamanders. |
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The fish look solidly built with heavy 'shoulders', tapering abruptly from the pectoral fins to the tail. |
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The muscular foot that most snails use for locomotion has been modified in the pteropods into delicate fins for swimming. |
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It also has two fins on top, the front fin has hard and sharp spines, the back fin has soft spines called rays. |
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Pectoral fins hyaline, with narrow black ventral margin extending from the fin base to the tip of the sixth or seventh ven-tralmost rays. |
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In a related development, JAL has decided to discontinue use of its five-decade-old red crane logo on the tail fins of airliners in late May. |
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Once that fish spreads its pectoral fins, water pressure is going to keep you from moving it. |
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From the fossil find experts can see the whole of a Wodnika shark for the first time, including the shapes of its fins, skin denticles and teeth. |
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Her findings showed the blue shark provided the most fins followed by the hammerhead shark, the silky shark and the oceanic whitetip shark. |
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Many modern radiators have convector fins which can get more heat out of the water as it passes through, so they can heat a room more quickly. |
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The entire building has a unitized curtain wall system with fritted glass and 10-inch glass fins that project from the facades. |
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The trilobed nature of this vessel was further enhanced by being twisted around its vertical axis so that three curvilinear fins are created. |
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Killer whale pectoral fins, analogous to forelimbs, are large and rounded, resembling paddles. |
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With a few bold strokes of the pen he had rendered a titan with its streamlined body, immense mouth in front, and betentacled fins at the rear. |
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Unpaired fins hyaline, with longitudinal rows of small black spots on interradial membranes. |
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The study uses the fork length and girth length from behind the pectoral fins measurements, to ensure consistency across all samples. |
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The smaller 9 9 have less elongated fins, drabber corporal colors, and more transparent fins. |
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The federal Shark Finning Prohibition Act of 2000 makes it illegal to remove sharks' fins and discard the carcasses at sea. |
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Eddie Lucio III, D-Harlingen, aims to cut down on finning by making it illegal to buy or sell shark fins in Texas. |
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The mechanisms of propulsion generation by the flutter kick and dolphin kick, while using fins, were also explained by Colman, et al. |
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Growing to around 10cm long, harmless velella velella have distinctive blue and purple colours and upright, sail-like fins. |
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By keeping evaporator fins clear of snow, the Eurotek SRS typically allows freezing lines to run for twice as long between defrosts. |
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The fish also exhibited contractures of the pectoral fins and abnormal eye positioning suggestive of extropia. |
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The fish, with wing-like fins and an eel-like tail, was found during an international expedition to the Mariana Trench in the Pacific Ocean. |
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Rays are distinguished by their flattened bodies, enlarged pectoral fins that are fused to the head, and gill slits that are placed on their ventral surfaces. |
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Its dorsal fin is backswept and it has long, sickle-shaped pectoral fins. |
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Strange handfish walk across the bottom using their fins like hands. |
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The junction between the head and body is indistinct because there are no gill slits, the gills opening as pores near the base of the pectoral fins. |
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Which fish has pectoral fins with a span that can exceed seven metres? |
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On hatching, each larva is surrounded by an integumentary envelope and has a large, rounded head, fully formed fins, and eyes with double notches. |
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A fish that looks like a giant cookie with skinny red fins comes the closest yet among fishes to the whole-body warm-bloodedness of birds and mammals. |
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Described as a modern-day Stonehenge dedicated to the cult of the automobile, it features ten partially buried Cadillacs, tail fins upended, along Route 66 in Amarillo, Texas. |
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Steering and stabilization fins switchblading out, followed by the wings. |
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They possess no pelvic fins, and many species also lack pectoral fins. |
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Trade in shark fins has been banned by APIL members from Hawaii, Guam and the Northern Marianas, and it has been suspended by the Marshall Islands. |
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Folds of loose netting, much like a window drapery, snag on a fish's tail and fins and wrap the fish up in loose netting as it struggles to escape. |
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Steelhead with intact adipose fins may now be kept in all Willamette Basin waters above the falls at Oregon City, provided the fish is 24 inches or more in length. |
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Language allowing Umpqua and North Umpqua River anglers to harvest limited numbers of winter steelhead with intact adipose fins will no longer appear in the regulations. |
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Most notable is shark finning, the practice whereby the fins of a captured shark are sliced off and the fin-less fish is returned to the ocean to die rather unceremoniously. |
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