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This event is unfolding as we speak and unless you expect Obama to swim out there in fins and snorkle with a giant sponge I suggest you wait before attempting to draw comparisons.

Is oil spill 'Obama's Katrina'? 2010

Lengthening and broadening of fins is not proof of flight, either.

Did ichthyosaurs fly? Probably not, no Darren Naish 2006

But British conservation groups warn that the high market value of shark fins is fuelling the outlawed practice of "finning", where sharks are hacked with machetes to remove their fins, often while still alive, before the carcasses are dumped overboard.

Shark Populations in Sharp Decline | Impact Lab 2006

Lengthening and broadening of fins is not proof of flight, either.

Archive 2006-09-01 Darren Naish 2006

For BASF, Mr. von Klemperer has designed a linear building with an open facade with large plates of glass that appear "Jets green" and cantilevered edges he calls "fins" on the east and west sides that add to the energy efficiency of the building.

NYT > Home Page By JAMIE DUFFY 2011

The majority of sharks caught for their fins are the blue sharks, threshers and hammerheads of more exotic waters, but North Atlantic species, including the porbeagle, angel, shortfin mako and spiny dogfish – sold in British fish and chip shops as rock salmon – are also under threat.

Shark Populations in Sharp Decline | Impact Lab 2006

He had a very graceful shape besides, and his fins were the envy of all the young fish of his acquaintance.

How Sammy Went to Coral-Land Emily Paret Atwater

Though stationary, they kept up a constant sculling or waving motion with their fins, which is exceedingly graceful, and expressive of their humble happiness; for unlike ours, the element in which they live is a stream which must be constantly resisted.

The Log of the Sun A Chronicle of Nature's Year William Beebe 1919

Though stationary, they keep up a constant sculling or waving motion with their fins, which is exceedingly graceful, and expressive of their humble happiness; for unlike ours, the element in which they live is a stream which must be constantly resisted.

A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers 1849

The fins are the key ingredient in shark fin soup, a Chinese delicacy.

Starbulletin Headlines Star-Bulletin staff 2010

That pride quickly turns to regret after the first couple runs when the not-so-bottomless powder reveals lurking knife edge rocks (known as “shark fins”) that gouge base material like a chisel.

An ode to rock skis Vince Shuley 2018