"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Transform your time in the water with a solid set of fins (that is, flippers for the uninitiated). No ...

SOUTH PADRE ISLAND, Texas — Allison, a green sea turtle with only one flipper, has been going around and around and around for most of her life. But swimming in tight circles is tough for a 5-year-old ...

WORCESTER -- Lola the sea turtle can glide through the water much better now that she has a prosthetic fin made specially for her by Worcester Polytechnic Institute students. The flipper the three ...

Allison's neoprene "ninja" suit with carbon-fiber dorsal fin is designed to act as a rudder, giving the turtle greater stability. SOUTH PADRE ISLAND -- For most of her life, 5-year-old Allison the ...

A green sea turtle that lost three of its flippers can finally swim in a straight line, turtle rescuers said Wednesday. Workers at Sea Turtle Inc. strapped Allison, a 5-year-old rescued turtle, on ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. They might make you swim faster, but do they allow to swim for longer? You might swim like a pro, but ...

Last February was my month to swim with lovable sea mammals. It was purely by happenstance: At mid-month I visited my father in Tampa, and early one morning drove north to Citrus County, the only ...

Prosthetic rubber fins have given a turtle injured in a shark attack a new lease of life. Yu, a loggerhead turtle, lost her front flippers in 2008, but is now enjoying her prosthetic fins, having ...

Dolphins may have a friendly Flipper reputation, but they have become the main suspect in an attack on a young pilot whale that cost the cetacean its life. The three-year-old calf had to be put down ...