Researchers have filmed dophins' behaviors, which include flipper rubbing, to better understand the behaviors' meanings.
Allison, a green sea turtle with only one flipper, has been going around and around and around for most of her life.
A loggerhead sea turtle seemingly injured by a shark was recently fitted with "trial" prosthetics as part of efforts to give the rare animal fully functioning flippers. Video.
Scientists figure out how flippers help dolphins swim.
Leatherback turtles prefer use their right rear flipper rather than their left when laying eggs, scientists discover.
... a solid region of sand that forms behind their flippers." Details of the study were published online on February ... sand, pressure from the thin edge of one of the turtle's flippers caused the limb to penetrate into the sand. The turtle ...
... penguins for science - putting bands around their flippers - affects their survival and reproduction, scientists find ...
Miles offshore, a fight is raging between angry anglers armed with guns and bombs and bottlenose dolphins, the marine mammals popularized in movies and TV shows like "Flipper."
... Mail informed us about The dark side of Flipper: He's a sexual predator who resorts to rape ...
A loggerhead sea turtle thought to have lost its front flippers in a shark attack is fitted with a prosthetic pair in an aquarium in Japan.
... of how seat turtles and other animals like mudskippers use their flippers. The research could also help explain how animals evolved ... to a better understanding of the principles governing movement using flippers. That would be useful to the designers of robots that must swim ...
... has produced an egg - a $399 dancing egg that flashes, rolls and flaps its plastic flippers to the beat ...
A Pennsylvania professor has developed a new wind turbine that draws inspiration from a blubbery source: the flippers of a humpback whale
... for the Blind 9) Taking Aural Cues from Flipper 10) Acoustic Techniques for Monitoring Bird ... BORDEAUX. 9) TAKING AURAL CUES FROM FLIPPER Dolphins have a very keen sonar system ...
... from across the US have been doing just that. By studying the flippers, fins and tails of whales and dolphins, these scientists ... , a concept known as biomimetics. The shape of whale flippers with one bumpy edge has inspired the creation of a completely ...
