It's hard to speculate about the behavior of fossils, but these animals had strong fins and a mobile neck, and I think there's a very good chance that these were also good terrestrial feeders.
Quotes about fins (13 Quotes)
A woman never knows what she really wants until she fins out what her husband cannot afford.
No two periods are ever identical, and we don't expect cars to sprout fins, but we do think that there's a good chance that many of the favorable economic trends of the 1950s will re-emerge in the years immediately ahead.
At a championship game at the worlds, the water literally froths, ... There is so much action with the fins, the pool is churning. It's just absolutely phenomenal to watch.
The only kind of seafood I trust is the fish stick, a totally featureless fish that doesn't have eyeballs or fins.
The speeding reader guts a book the way the skillful clean fish. The gills are gone, the tail, the scales, the fins then the fillet slides away swifly as though fed to a seal.
When you see a fish you don't think of its scales, do you? You think of its speed, its floating, flashing body seen through the water... If I made fins and eyes and scales, I would arrest its movement, give a pattern or shape of reality. I want just the flash of its spirit.
If you were queen of bloaters And I were king of soles, The sea we'd wag our fins in. Nor heed the crooked pins in The water, dropped by boaters To catch our heedless joles.
But it was different out upon the rose-tinted waters of the central lake. It boiled and heaved with strange life. Great slate-colored backs and high serrated dorsal fins shot up with a fringe of silver, and then rolled down into the depths again. The sand-banks far out were spotted with uncouth crawling forms, huge turtles, strange saurians, and one great flat creature like a writhing, palpitating mat of black greasy leather, which flopped its way slowly to the lake.
I am really a sea creature. Just a mammal that lost its fins.
I've always liked that retro sound. It takes you back to the days of big, fast cars with tail fins. My wife (Liz) and I always try to see the Rev. when he is in a nearby city.
Its head and face resembled an alligator, ... It looked to have armored plate over its blue eyes with orange colored cheeks, a body like a snake that felt like a dogfish and had big fins that looked like feet with toenails underneath.
If you go to any reef around the world, except for those that are really protected, the sharks are gone. Their value is so great that completely harmless sharks, like whale sharks, are killed, for their fins.