Underwater drones usually use electric motor propeller drives. Researchers now want to eliminate their disadvantages with an artificial fish fin.

Yamabe finally found something to be passionate about: fish fins. To date, she has collected around 40,000 tail and pectoral fins from at least 100 fish species, which she makes into key chains ...

But we can build a robot that moves like a fish and optimize it,” Cerdeira said in a statement. Tuna-inspired design.

The typical dorsal fin is a triangular-shaped piece of skin wrapped around muscles and bony spines or rays that sits on a ...

Growing up in Spain, Cecilia Huertas Cerdeira was captivated by the elegant movements of aquatic life during frequent ...

Researchers at the University of Maryland are developing a new unmanned underwater vehicle (UUV) that mimics the movement of ...

One of the study’s authors named the two new species, Etheostoma kimberlae and Etheostoma michellae, after his daughter, ...

Their streamlined torpedo shape helps them gather enough underwater speed to break the surface, and their large, wing-like pectoral fins get them airborne. Flying fish are thought to have evolved ...