It is the theory that paired fins arose in jawed fishes from the evolution of ventrolateral skin folds in jawless, basal fishes. The folds then separated and specialized to form the paired pectoral and pelvic fins in more evolved fishes.
Because it is light weight, and easy to fold into the fin shape.
It's all in the anal fin (the rear fin on the bottom just before the tail fin). In a male, it will be skinny and pointed and separate from the body, in a female it will fan out like a true fin and sometimes fold up against the body which can make sexing them confusing. Usually, watching them a few minutes is all it takes to figure it out.
The fin on the back of an orca is called the dorsal fin.
If you mean a fin like a fish fin, there is a word, but mostlly each one is different; Lā (fin). Anal fin, kuaalo. Caudal fin, hiʻu. Dorsal fin, kualā. Pectoral fin, etc. If you mean fin, like 'the end', it is pau'ana.
The dorsal fin is the fin on the back of a fish, for example the typical triangular fin on the back of a shark is its dorsal fin.
An adipose fin is a soft, fleshy fin found on a fish behind the dorsal fin and ahead of the caudal fin.
Soup fin is shark fin used in making shark fin soup.
On a dolphin and most fish the fin behind the dorsal fin is the tail fin. Some fish, such as knife fish, have no dorsal fin or tail fin. Dolphins of course are mammals, not fish.
An abdominal fin is one of a pair of posterior fins in fish - the pelvic fin and the ventral fin.
The fin on the top/back of all fish is called the "Dorsal Fin."
Caudal fin, Dorsal fin, Pectoral fin, Ventral fin, and the fin.
A dolphin's fin is rounded at the top, but a shark's fin is straight