Another notable anatomical adaptation among beaked whales is a slight depression in the body wall that allows them to hold their pectoral flippers tightly against their bodies for increased streamlining.

The pectoral muscles may be released along its inferior edge to allow a larger, more supple pocket for the expander at the expense of thinner lower pole soft tissue coverage.

When a male is courting a female, he will follow her closely, biting at her pectoral disc.

For this reason, especially in the Russian Orthodox Church, the pectoral cross that the priest wears at all times will often have the Icon of Christ " Not Made by Hands " inscribed on it.

Post cranial remains of amniotes can be identified from their Labyrinthodont ancestors by their having at least two pairs of sacral ribs, a sternum in the pectoral girdle ( some amniotes have lost it ) and an astragalus bone in the ankle.

Mark suffered a pectoral tear at the end of the second set, which caused him to lose the third and fourth sets.

The dorsal and pectoral fins have strong spines, and there is a spine at the anterior border of the adipose fin.

A bottlenose dolphin discovered in Japan has two additional pectoral fins, or " hind legs ", at the tail, about the size of a human's pair of hands.

For example, The Christian Falangist Party, founded in 1985, uses a “ pectoral salute ,” in which the right arm, bent at the elbow, is extended from the heart, palm down.

Fossils of Pterichtyodes showing eyes positioned on the top of the head and a " ventrally flattened trunk shield " suggest that it was a " bottom dweller ", living at the bottom of lakes, where it might have crawled using its pectoral appendages.

Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church | Ukrainian Catholic priest wearing sticharion, phelonion, epitrachelion, Zone ( vestment ) | zone, epimanikia, and Pectoral_cross # Eastern_Catholic_and_Orthodox_practice | pectoral cross at a St. Joseph the Betrothed Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church | church in the United States.

A pair of kidney-shaped electric organs are found at the base of the pectoral fins.

A Cobia at an aquarium, showing the horizontal pectoral fins and broad head

The courtship behavior of the zebra shark consists of the male following the female and biting vigorously at her pectoral fins and tail, with periods in which he holds onto her pectoral fin and both sharks lie still on the bottom.

When this fish is disturbed, it quickly expands its pectoral fins, often retracting them before swimming off at speed.

Bishop Cuthbert's pectoral cross was buried with him during Aldfrith's reign, either at his death in 687 or his reburial in 698 and is now at Durham Cathedral.

The pectoralis major muscle is covered with a thin superficial membrane, the pectoral fascia, which has many prolongations intercalated among its fasciculi ( fascicles ); at the midline, it is attached to the front of the sternum, above it is attached to the clavicle ( collar bone ), while laterally and below, it is continuous with the fascia.

* The small cross of St Cuthbert represents the College's patron saint ( it is modelled on St Cuthbert's own pectoral cross, which is kept in the Treasury at Durham Cathedral ).

Returning to the event age 50 in 2004, Hooper competed ably despite a torn pectoral muscle, finishing fourth against rivals at least 15 years younger than himself.

The broad, triangular pectoral fins originate at or slightly before the level of the fifth gill slit.

Each male attempts to seize the female by engulfing one of her pectoral fins ; at times two males might grasp a female on both sides simultaneously.

The male bites at the female's pectoral fins, gill region, and flanks while courting and to hold on for copulation.

Soon after Piccolo had surgery at Sloan-Kettering in New York City to remove the tumor, he had another surgery in April 1970 to remove his left lung and pectoral muscle.

Sharks are a group of fish characterized by a cartilaginous skeleton, five to seven gill slits on the sides of the head, and pectoral fins that are not fused to the head.

The pectoral fins are placed low on the sides.

The ventral fins are about halfway between the anal and the tip of the snout, while the pectoral fins are considerably longer than the body is deep and are situated very low down on the sides.

The caudal, or tail fin, is somewhat lunate and the pectoral fins are along the lateral sides of the body with the paired pelvic fins directly below.

Rajiforms are distinguished by the presence of greatly enlarged pectoral fins, which reach as far forward as the sides of the head, with a generally flattened body.

Because of this, they are slow-moving and rely on their pectoral, dorsal, anal, and caudal fins for propulsion rather than by body undulation.

alt = Photo of humpback whale with most of its body out of the water and its pectoral fins extended

They have a naked, moderately depressed head and an elongated body, covered with small cycloid irregular flakes, with tiny or absent pectoral fins.

The body is long and eel-like, the dorsal fin and pectoral fins are absent, and the anal fin is extremely long and used for movement.

Modern lungfish all have an elongate body with fleshy, paired pectoral and pelvic fins and a single unpaired caudal fin replacing the dorsal, caudal and anal fins of most fishes.

The damaged skull had been separated from the body and was found with a vulture pectoral wrapped around it.

Sunfish fry resemble miniature pufferfish, with large pectoral fins, a tail fin and body spines uncharacteristic of adult sunfish.

Sunfish fry, with large pectoral fins, a tail fin and body spines uncharacteristic of adult sunfish, resemble miniature pufferfish, their close relatives.

The four species of ajolote are unusual in having a pair of forelimbs, but all limbless species have some remnants of the pelvic and pectoral girdles embedded within the body musculature.

The display consists of the shark raising its snout, dropping its pectoral fins, arching its back, and curving its body laterally.

In the Star Trek episode " Mirror Mirror ", the salute begins with the right fist being placed over the heart, as in a pectoral salute, and then the arm is stretched out ( usually up ) before the body, open palm down, as in a traditional Roman salute.

And so the salute is not the familiar straight arm salute but rather resembles a pectoral salute, with the right hand is placed over the heart and then extended to the front of the body.

Like all Scleropages, Asian arowanas have long bodies ; large, elongate pectoral fins ; dorsal and anal fins located far back on the body ; and a much larger caudal fin than that of their South American relative, the silver arowana, Osteoglossum bicirrhosum.

Yellowish to dark brown in colour, nurse sharks have muscular pectoral fins, two spineless dorsal fins ( the second of which is smaller ) in line with the pelvic and anal fins, and a tail exceeding one quarter the shark's body length.

Claroteids have a moderately elongate body, usually four pairs of barbels, an adipose fin, and strong pectoral and dorsal fin spines.

They use notched caudal fins, soft dorsal fins, body undulations, and pectoral fins to move forward.

The body is brown with up to 12 narrow dark brown crossbars, the caudal fin is dark brown, and the soft dorsal, anal and pectoral fins are pale.

The first dorsal fin is positioned well back on the body, closer to the pelvic than the pectoral fins.

The torso of Coelophysis conforms to the basic theropod body shape, but the pectoral girdle displays some interesting special characteristics: C. bauri had a furcula ( wishbone ), the earliest known example in a dinosaur.

This is accompanied by large pectoral fins and " extraordinarily powerful " associated muscles which " account for up to 1 / 4 the total body weight ".

Dominating qi of the entire body means that the function of the lung in respiration greatly influences the functional activities of the body, and is closely related to the formation of pectoral qi, which is formed from the combination of the essential qi of water and food, and the clear qi inhaled by the lung.

Two submarines of the United States Navy have borne the name USS Ray, named in honor of the ray, a fish characterized by a flat body, large pectoral fins, and a whiplike tail.