Constantin Brancusi

When you see a fish you don't think of its scales, do you? You think of its speed, its floating, flashing body seen through the water... If I made fins and eyes and scales, I would arrest its movement, give a pattern or shape of reality. I want just the flash of its spirit.

Romanian Sculptor

Mohsin Hamid

I think I've always been drawn to the second person. When I was growing up and playing with my friends, the usual way we interacted with imaginary worlds was as characters: a bench was 'your' boat, leaves on a lawn were the fins of sharks out to get 'you.

Pakistani Writer

Edward Albert

I was getting bored and, I think, being a real pest. I remember Brando coming and sitting on the bed and cutting out the most exquisite paper fish, with detailed scales and fins. Then he took a hotel pen and a piece of string and made a fishing pole.

American Actor

Winona LaDuke

Food for us comes from our relatives, whether they have wings or fins or roots. That is how we consider food. Food has a culture. It has a history. It has a story. It has relationships.

American Activist

Heston Blumenthal

There are so many issues in our oceans - like the near extinction of blue fin tuna - that should be taken more seriously worldwide.

English Chef

Ted Danson

California is responsible for selling, trading and distributing large amounts of shark fins that come from all over the world.

Barbara Block

Sharks are being driven to extinction because people want to eat their fins and their flesh.

American Scientist

Ashlan Gorse Cousteau

We know shark's fin is a huge problem. In California now, you can't buy it or sell it.

American Journalist

Kathleen Quinlan

I am really a sea creature. Just a mammal that lost its fins.

American Actress

Anthony Bourdain

American Author

Refers to the body part fish use for propulsion and steering in water.

Animal Movement

Understand that 'fin' is not used for human body parts, but for aquatic animals.

Not Human Limbs

Distinguish between 'dorsal fin' (top), 'pectoral fins' (sides), and others.

Types of Fins

In vehicles, 'fin' often refers to parts that add balance and stability.

Stability

While important, vehicle fins are not always prominent or easily noticed.

Not Always Visible

Fins in aquatic sports are worn to increase swimming efficiency underwater.

Diving Gear

These fins are artificial equipment, not natural parts of an organism.

Not Natural

When used as a verb, 'fin' relates to the act of moving through water with fins.

Swimming Action

In slang, particularly in the US, 'fin' refers to a five-dollar bill.

Slang for Money

Be aware that 'fin' as slang for money is specific to American English.

American Slang

 Having a head leads naturally to the development of bilateral symmetry. And it also helps you build streamlined fins if you're a fish, aerodynamic wings if you're a bird, or well coordinated legs for running if you're a fox. But, what does this all have to do with evolution? Turns out, biologists can use these various body symmetries

The science of symmetry...

 animal? He put his pectoral fin right under me and he just held it to the surface of the water like this. Just like this and I just laid on it and I hugged it. I held onto him like this and I hugged it and I laid there forever. I just laid there and he didn't move either.

A whale saved my life PIPE...

 that the fin has become the most profitable part of the shark. This leads many fishermen to fill their boats with fins leaving millions of dead sharks behind. The problems aren't unique to toothfish and sharks. Almost 31% of the world's fish populations are overfished,

Will the ocean ever run...

 a different taxonomic name it may be the world's ugliest dolphin some people have said that but to those of us that have seen them but you know I'm just absolutely blown away by this creature they are absolutely endearing like many dolphins the snub fins aren't used to

"Ugliest Dolphin"...

 and I told them, you know, you don't have to do this like this. This is on the street for a reason. It made me feel ashamed to see people that were this close to me that were hungry, and this only reinforced why I do this, and people asked me, "Fin, aren't you afraid

A guerilla gardener in...

 So although the coelacanth itself isn't a land-walker, its fins do resemble those of its close relatives who first hauled their bodies onto land with the help of these sturdy, flexible appendages, acting as an evolutionary bridge to the land lovers that followed.

The coelacanth: A living...

 that the dominant males were leading the effort how little we knew and still fully understand about killer whales if you look closely you'll see the adult males they're the ones with the particularly tall dorsal fins largely maintained a peripheral role flanking

Killer whale society PIPE...

 make their kill never wasting a fin stroke nearly a hundred sailfish have surrounded a single school of bait fish it's very rare to see so many of these

ONE HOUR Of Amazing...

 It's very rare to see so many of these hunters in one place. To herd their prey, the predators raise their huge dorsal fins.

Sailfish Are Master...

 riding on the currents supported by its broad wing-shaped fins this one may not have eaten for two months