A handsome article this decanter is, too, with its cut-star stopper, "fish-scale" neck cutting and engraved band, yours for the not unreasonable sum of $325.
He lies there on the cover, a large mischievous fishy grin on his face, but with his un-fish-like neck and weight-bearing elbows flexed, as if ready to take a quick dash across an exposed rock as imagined by Gary Larson in a Far Side cartoon as a Great Moment in Evolution.
For example, fish have no neck but "we see a mobile neck developing for the first time in Tiktaalik," Dr. Shubin said.
The tufts of the wolf's fur fall in a scale-like pattern that is outlined in silver thread, evoking House Tully's fish sigil; its neck terminates in a mass of dark-gray mother-of-pearl beads.
Farish Jenkins, a paleontologist who discovered fossils of animals evolving into something new — most notably a 375-million-year-old fossilized fish with skull, neck, ribs and part of the fins that resembled the earliest mammals — died on Nov. 11 in Boston.
It had rows of sharp teeth of a predator fish, and its neck could move independently of its body, which is not common in other fish (Tarrasius, Mandageria, placoderms, and extant seahorses being some exceptions; see also Lepidogalaxias and Channallabes apus ).
I could have used squid, or frozen fish, or chicken necks, all of which can work.
A fishing heron's neck tells a story – the greater the kink, the faster the prey.
Mr. Cripe's product, wrenched from female fish after their necks have been broken, glows with a deep umber color and packs a marine umami punch.
Mr. Bixhorn likes to fish by Eaton's Neck Lighthouse.
