The typical dorsal fin is a triangular-shaped piece of skin wrapped around muscles and bony spines or rays that sits on a fish’s back, behind its head. As a fish swims through water, the dorsal ...

Adults have a narrow line of dark blue along their dorsal fin that curves back at the tail. Its resemblance to the numeral 6 gives the fish one of its descriptive names. You may like Whales ...

The tags are attached surgically to the dorsal fin of the fish to be tracked, and as it swims the strip generates power for the electronics. PNNL says that so long as the fish moves and is within ...

Anglers reporting fish caught with tags attached to their dorsal fins aid researchers in understanding ... the tags being reported to Montana FWP. Blue tags enter anglers into drawings for gear ...

Each tag has a unique number and will be attached to the fish near the dorsal fin. Anglers who catch a tagged ... may also be eligible for rewards. Blue tags will be entered into a drawing for ...

The tiny adipose fin, a fatty nub between the dorsal fin and tail of some 6,000 species of fish, has been the ugly stepchild of anatomy. Most scientists shrugged and dismissed it as a withered ...

To female molly and Limia fish, nothing is hotter than a male with a large dorsal fin. But these fins aren't just decorations to attract females. Males also use them to fight or intimidate rivals.

Interestingly, however, those neurons are completely separate from the ones which issue commands to the fish’s other three dorsal fins, located in the lower side of its ventral horn, called the ...

“At the time, we just saw the dorsal fin and it was different than a normal blue whale fin. There was something different about the whale,” he said. He also mentioned that there was another ...

The silky shark (Carcharhinus falciformis) had a satellite tag fitted to its dorsal fin in June 2022 so researchers could track its migration. A few weeks later, an unknown person cut out the tag ...