The current study presents a novel underwater propulsion system that is modeled after the caudal fin of fish, particularly tuna and other species that use thunniform swimming. The UUV has a ...

Adipose fins are small, fleshy and usually not as elaborately structured as other fins. Although some 6,000 species of fish—including trout, catfish, and salmon—have them, relatively few researchers ...

Angus Webb, Simon Treadwell, Garima Lakhanpal, Ben Baker, Simon Casanelia, Michael Grace, Wayne Koster, Daniel Lovell, Kay Morris, Vin Pettigrove, Zeb Tonkin, Geoff Vietz ...

Robots could benefit from research into fish fins at the University of Colorado Boulder. Engineer Professor Francois Barthelat has been examining the mechanics that allow fins to be flexible and stiff ...

ABOVE: An image of dissected zebrafish pectoral fin bones demonstrates that fish with a gain-of-function mutation in waslb have two more long bones (right, arrowheads) than wildtype fish (left). M.B.