KEEP AN EYE OUT; Volunteers' spotting mission.(News)

South Wales Echo (Cardiff, Wales);  June 20, 2003 ;     243 words ......be based at a special station at Nash Point on the Glamorgan Heritage Coast...s distinctive triangularshaped dorsal fin. Kate Pryor, the Vale's biodiversity...triangularshaped dorsal fin and dark back. The Nash Point watch is free but there will be...

sailfin molly

The Oxford American College Dictionary;      48 words ......x2022; n. a small, brightly colored freshwater fish (genus Poecilia , family Poeciliidae), the male of which has a long, high dorsal fin. Native to North and Central America, it is popular in aquariums. ORIGIN: sailfin from the dorsal fin + molly .

Fins can only get better.(Letter to the editor)

The Daily Mail (London, England);  May 17, 2007 ;     700+ words ...QUESTION Do any of the streamlined 'dorsal fin' motor coaches built by master coachbuilder...and Thomas, as joint directors. The 'dorsal fin' design first appeared in 1935, patented...Industrial Museum near Arundel, when three dorsal fin coaches should be on display. My website...

News: Scientists focus on mysteries of basking sharks

The Sunday Telegraph London;  May 14, 2000 ;     563 words ......fish. Stumpy, a 25ft female missing a dorsal fin thanks probably to an encounter with...sometimes see the top of the nose, the dorsal fin and the tip of the tail. When there were...protect the shark. They have a 3ft-tall dorsal fin, which has huge value in the Far East...

Fun-loving friends reunited ; Dancing and playing in the calm waters of...

Western Morning News, The Plymouth (UK);  June 3, 2008 ;     467 words ......watchers as Findol - with the jagged dorsal fin - is frequently spotted along the Devon...Whitsand Bay when we caught sight of a dorsal fin breaking the surface of the water alongside...around dolphins - the injuries to Cookie's dorsal fin are most probably from a propeller...

DEFORMED DOLPHIN'S SHOCK SURVIVAL; EXCLUSIVE Disabled calf spotted in...

The People (London, England);  October 8, 2006 ;     352 words ......Willy movies, ended up with a deformed dorsal fin - allegedly this was caused by its lack...the left immediately posterior to its dorsal fin. A number of deep creases ran from behind the dorsal fin down the dolphins flank and into its...

sea perch

The Oxford American College Dictionary;      25 words ...sea perch • n. any of a number of marine fishes that typically have a long-based dorsal fin and that are popular as sporting fish, in particular a surfperch.

Attacked by a shark... off the coast of Scotland; (1) MOVING The shark's...

The Mail on Sunday (London, England);  June 1, 2008 ;     430 words ......anglers. It was first spotted swimming near the boat, when its dorsal fin broke thesurface in Balintore Bay, near Tarbetness, Easter...oftenmistaken for a great white - the shape of the head and dorsal fin on bothspecies is very similar. 'It seems likely, if these...

To Save Dolphin's Dorsal Fin, Experts Combine Human Medical Technology and...

PR Newswire;  October 19, 2004 ;     700+ words ......restore a bottlenose dolphin's damaged dorsal fin. (Photo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin...that can result in eventual loss of the dorsal fin, Dolphin Quest veterinarians organized...in an effort to keep as much of Liko's dorsal fin intact as possible. A dolphin's dorsal...

Well-known porpoise area.(News)

South Wales Echo (Cardiff, Wales);  February 12, 2003 ;     157 words ......unlike dolphins, which often follow vessels and leap out of the water. Their dorsal fin is also smaller and triangular, unlike the larger, sickle-shaped dorsal fin of dolphins and they lack the distinct nose or beak seen on many dolphins. Porpoise...

Veterinary and human medicine unite in historic procedure

DVM;  December 1, 2004 ;     165 words ......regenerative medicine was used in an effort to restore the dorsal fin of a bottlenose dolphin. Several human medical and veterinary...injured fin. The soft-cartilage-like tissue that composes the dorsal fin was salvaged by the use of an extracellular matrix developed...

DOLPHIN RECOVERING FROM BOAT STRIKE ``JOYCE,'' ONE OF FOUR FROM BROAD BAY...

The Virginian Pilot;  August 17, 2002 ;     321 words ......the animal with a gash so deep in its dorsal fin that the fin is almost half-gone, the...acorn-sized bump in the front of its dorsal fin, then redubbed Joyce in honor of a long-servi...MUSEUM A boat propeller put a gash in the dorsal fin of year-round Broad Bay resident ``Joyce...

A Miocene chimaeroid fin spine from Kern County, California.

Bulletin (Southern California Academy of Sciences);  August 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ......preserved as isolated dental plates, dorsal fin spines, and very rarely as complete specimens...the characteristics of dental plates. Dorsal fin spines are not diagnostic to species...Case and Herman 1973). A well-preserved dorsal fin spine of the extinct chimaeroid genus...

The shark whisperer; DIVER GETS UP CLOSE TO PREDATORS.(News)

The Mirror (London, England);  July 22, 2008 ;     168 words ......that the 38-year-old, who even hitches rides on the shark's dorsal fin, insists his success in getting up close and personal is simply...Mike Rutzen; JUST CRUISING Mike hitches a ride on shark's dorsal fin Pictures: RALF KIEFNER/BARCROFT MEDIA; JAWS Predator shows...

greenling

Webster's NewWorld Dictionary;      35 words ...Webster's NewWorld Dictionary 01-01-1988 green|ling (gren'ling) n. any of a family (Hexagrammidae) of large, predatory percoid fishes of the N Pacific, with a long dorsal fin Copyright 1994, 1991, 1988 Simon & Schuster, Inc.