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Dr. Solomon David

4 years

OMGar IT’s HERE!!! My gar story is in the latest issue @RangerRickMags !!! The nature magazine that introduced me to gars 30 years ago comes full circle, hopefully sparking interest in a new group of kids! Cameos from #GarLab too! I’M SO HAPPY!!!

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5 months

Christmas Cookie Cutter Shark 🎄🍪🔪🦈 🎨Tim Andraka

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10 months

Checking for accuracy 🦋🧐

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4 years

Post-storm survey yields tiny toad🐸

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2 years

🦀Estimated 1 BILLION crabs have mysteriously disappeared, a 90% drop in population 🦀Alaska has canceled winter snow crab season in the Bering Sea for first time in history 🦀 Climate connection: canary in coal mine for other cold water species

Alaska snow crab season canceled as officials investigate disappearance of an estimated 1 billion...

An estimated 1 billion crabs have mysteriously disappeared from Alaskan waters in two years, officials said.

www.cbsnews.com

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Dr. Solomon David

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2 months

Apparently it’s National American Paddlefish Day, so here’s my video of these crazy critters screaming— I mean filtering food from the water with their mouth agape!

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1 year

We present to you: baby puffer fish! 🐡🐡🐡🐡🐡🐡🐡🐡🐡🐡 📹 @puffers_island

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Dr. Solomon David

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4 years

TFW a wildlife TV/YouTube host says they “discovered” something you’ve studied for over a decade. Hybrid gars aren’t newly-documented, and I helped develop “crocodile gar” types over 15 years ago. I’ve reached out @COYOTEPETERSON @AnimalPlanet to help👍

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Dr. Solomon David

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3 years

Australian Lungfish BOOP! I love lungfishes; among the largest genomes of any animal. They’re more closely related to us (tetrapods) than they are to salmon, bass, or any other fish!

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1 year

Forget the new Barbie Movie, check out:

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2 years

Bird of Paradise. I’m 44, and only just learned this today🙃😂 📷via Give a Shift About Nature

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10 months

STUNNING (in the skin-crawling sort of way) attack by cookie cutter sharks on a swordfish! “Fisherman Shocked After Reeling in Swordfish Covered in Strange Round Holes” 🗡️🐟🍽️🍪🦈😬 📸T.K. Walker

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Dr. Solomon David

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4 years

Your moment of zen brought to you by this Wobbegong Shark @MaduroDive

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6 months

Not many Trick-or-Treaters stopped by this year🐟🎃

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4 years

LOOK at this pufferfish skeleton reconstructed by Duy Nguyen! 🐡

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3 years

MESMERIZING through the ICE. 🎥by kolebyvb, HT @YaRascalJoe

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Dr. Solomon David

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5 years

Have you ever seen Paddlefish eat? Concentrated electroreceptors in their snout (aka rostrum) help them detect plankton and other small prey. They swim with mouths wide open, filtering prey out of the water using fine gill rakers like a sieve!🐟

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Dr. Solomon David

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1 year

Who needs cats when gar… 🎥 @CowTurtle9427

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2 years

Ugh, I hate it when birds poop on the—waaaaiit a minute 🧐

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7 months

“And I looked, and behold a thicc gar…”

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1 year

Amazing colors on this Orangethroat Darter, a small freshwater fish* that lives in North American streams! *related to perch & walleye 📸 @ARGameandFish

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10 months

BUCKET LIST item achieved!!! I finally got to see a WILD VENUS FLYTRAP!!!🪰🪤🌱🍽️ I’ve been a fan of these carnivorous plants since elementary school, and this is one of the only places in the world where native Venus flytraps grow!

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2 months

YAAAWN🥱🐟 Check out those teeth! At only 6 weeks old, baby Alligator Gar have well-developed teeth and are proficient at catching fish! *and yes, fish yawn!

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4 years

Please do not disturb while I’m recording my online lectures

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1 year

Yes @WhySharksMatter , but there’s also a (strictly-freshwater) Arapaima??!!

Dr. David Shiffman 🦈

@WhySharksMatter

1 year

Oh hey there’s a shark in the new little mermaid poster

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4 years

Tiny Toad has tiny “hands”👋🐸

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1 year

BLACK Paddlefish! Check out this melanistic Paddlefish caught and released by Oklahoma Paddlefish Guide Service! 📸Oklahoma Paddlefish Guide Service

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3 months

This #ValentinesDay , let that special sarcopterygian know…

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7 months

Buffalo are native (US) species and can live for over 100 years. Here’s a 70-pound female that won bowfishers “big fish” at a national tournament hosted @BassProShops . Note the puddle of eggs. These fish aren’t eaten, at best ➡️landfill. Full video:

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Dr. Solomon David

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4 years

So you’re telling me this is NOT how you’re supposed to use a... wait for it... Gar Seat???

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2 years

I don’t normally post #TeamBird material, but I am amused by their internal struggles 🦅😂 Meme Credit: Riley JP via @WildGreenMemes

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Dr. Solomon David

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4 years

Help us share the diversity of people working with fishes! Quote tweet this (or each other) with a pic/what you do! I study the ecology and conservation of gars and other “ancient” fishes!

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Dr. Solomon David

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3 years

Drop your Lock Screen:

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5 years

I’m in the market for a new field assistant; current one’s a little slow

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Dr. Solomon David

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3 years

That new Twitter logo though😎

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4 years

GOLDEN GAR!!! Check out this very rare xanthic Florida Gar found by fellow fish head M.Drawdy! “Gold” appearance is caused by genetic condition resulting in excess yellow-orange pigment (similar to commercial Goldfish)🐟

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Dr. Solomon David

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3 years

Tired: Bar Graphs Wired: GAR Graphs

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Dr. Solomon David

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6 months

Why yes, yes I have heard of this:

Don Yee 🦟 @mosquitolab on other sites

@MosquitoLab

6 months

@SolomonRDavid you've heard of a Elf on the Shelf but have you hear of

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Dr. Solomon David

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5 years

Now you’ve seen a leech parent with leech eggs & babies. Sleep well tonight friends

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Dr. Solomon David

@SolomonRDavid

4 years

Scientists: our science is exciting, and here’s why!!! Scientific Journals: OK now make it boring, dry, and dense. And also pay us for publishing it.

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Dr. Solomon David

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1 year

Smol catfish, serious spines🐱🐟

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Dr. Solomon David

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10 months

Evolutionary rate of Gar vs everyone else, summarized:

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Dr. Solomon David

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10 months

OK @MdBreathe , gar scientist here, Alligator Gar is a fish not a reptile 🫠🤦‍♂️ Stick with recommending ivermectin for COVID and anti-vax rhetoric. Oh wait don’t do that either 🙃

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Dr. Solomon David

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1 year

Ok, hear me out:

Kory Evans Ph.D. #2

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1 year

@SolomonRDavid I’d never go outside if there was a hyphen between those words lol

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3 years

My Mom received the COVID vaccine today and I’m SO HAPPY to hear it (we all need good news these days). She’s been a medical technologist since before I was born, and has continued to work during the pandemic (also processing Covid samples). 😭❤️

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2 years

If you’ve never seen Paddlefish eat, you’re in for a treat! They swim with mouths wide open, filtering plankton out of the water using fine gill rakers like a sieve. Those long snouts are packed with electroreceptors to help them find their food!

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Dr. Solomon David

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2 years

Our 1.5-year old son has COVID and this tweet cannot contain even a FRACTION of my rage. *and absolute disgust for the PATHETIC rate of vaccination/masking in our town, region, state, whatever. CHILDREN are paying the price for your idiocy and selfishness.

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2 years

Gotta love pet fish that…hop out of the water to feed from your hand??!! 📹Wesley Wong/fugupuff

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3 years

Baby Catfish...Kittenfish? Caught & released this little Yellow Bullhead dip-netting the neighborhood pond🐟🧐

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3 years

“Don’t ever talk to me or my sons again”

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7 years

Hi @BillNye , I'm Solomon and I study what ancient fishes can tell us about biodiversity, environment, and our genes! #BillMeetScienceTwitter

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4 years

Just learned there’s a fish called the “Fluffy Sculpin” and they can be SO GREEN. Found in west coast tidal pools🟢🐟 📷Michael Ray Spencer

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2 years

YOU SEE I'M AN INVASIVE SPECIES AND YOU'RE A NATIVE SPECIES BUT WE'RE OFTEN BOTH CONSIDERED INVASIVE. HOPEFULLY THINGS WILL CHANGE AS PEOPLE LEARN MORE ABOUT FRESHWATER FISH. IN FACT, NEW RESEARCH SHOWS YOUR SPECIES CAN LIVE FOR 127 YEARS!!!

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4 years

WOW! Check out this Orangethroat Darter, a small freshwater fish (same family as perch & walleye) from North American streams! 📷Lance R. Merry

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1 year

From the mouth of the Mississippi River to the headwaters! Excited to share that our family will be returning to the Midwest where I’ll be joining the University of Minnesota @UMNFWCB ! @TheGarLab will continue, with new native fish conservation work too!

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6 months

Please do not disturb me while I’m preparing my #GarWeek posts. cc @OKWildlifeDept

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6 months

How do we safely transport gars @TheGarLab ? In a GARseat, obviously. Safety first #GarWeek , safety first.

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2 years

Deep sea: we replace fish tongues with ISOPODS Freshwater: Hold my 🍺

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4 years

No good reason to shoot a fish like this other than you want to kill something big. Although legal, this 7’5” long, 240 lb Alligator Gar was bowfished so it could be mounted on a wall. These giants can live +100 years, how long is this waste sustainable?

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3 years

The LUNGFISH [Genome] HAS LANDED!!! Australian Lungfish has LARGEST animal genome sequenced to date; 43 BILLION base pairs long; 14x larger than human’s! Learn more about water-land transition, why tetrapods are all FISH! Nature: Meyer et al 2021 1/n

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2 years

Behold the Ribbon Snake model📉🐍 Create your own axis labels, mine are: X axis: Dec 2019-present Y axis: my productivity

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4 years

Y’ALL I JUST SAW MY FIRST GAR IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD POND!!!

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2 years

“Daddy I see a bird!” And just like that, she became a birder… *screams silently in #TeamFish *

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6 months

Here’s me with that exact same fish 109 years later @FieldMuseum ! It was on a cart because I was caught in the middle of a #GarWeek heist 😂

Field Museum

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#GarWeek c. 1905

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5 years

@technotional I’ve said in the past (jokingly, but probably actually seriously) that a group of gars... of the same species = a GARrison

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3 years

That time a Sand Tiger Shark photobombed my Alligator Gar shot. This concludes my #SharkWeek 🦈 tweet.

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11 months

All that glitters is not gar… …EXCEPT FOR THESE LIMITED EDITION Florida Gar stickers @TheGarLab ! Stay tuned for how to get one AND support diversity, equity, and inclusion👍 *yes, I specifically chose the FLORIDA Gar😎

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2 years

Seven-foot super-predator* slides back into swamp! *Alligator Gar 🎥USFWS #GarLab

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4 years

Artwork? #GARtwork .

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1 year

Another wildly colorful North American freshwater fish: Orangespotted Sunfish! 📸Jeff Gravél

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6 months

Today we’re talking conservation of gars & other long-lived freshwater fishes, and they need our help! #GarWeek Did you know Alligator Gar can live for 100 years??? Even the smallest gar can live for decades! Stay tuned for Buffalo, Bowfin, Paddlefish & more w/ @OKWildlifeDept !

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8 months

Conservation Officer: Do you have a permit? Fish Biologist: 📷E.Freeman *Trachinotus falcatus

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4 years

Day 3 of #WorkFromHome & toddler childcare: I’m putting Cecelia’s stuffed animals in phylogenetic order: 🐙, Manta Ray, Anglerfish, Australian Lungfish, Slow Loris,🐔

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5 years

SORRY, DUCK. Fish > Birds; in this case, an anguillid eel! #BirdsVsFish 🐟🦆

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6 years

smol sturgeon is so smol! Great pic of a baby sturgeon by @Juju_fishes !

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3 years

Positive COVID test in our 2-year-old’s daycare. Sending kids home. WE DIDN’T EVEN LAST A FULL WEEK INTO THE SEMESTER.

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1 year

If Twitter does go down, at least we did that thing @OKWildlifeDept 👍 “We’ll always have #GarWeek ”

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3 years

CORRECTION: Doctors drilled a hole in my skull and this is what they saw...

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3 years

MESMERIZING through the ICE. 🎥by kolebyvb, HT @YaRascalJoe

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5 years

@technotional Group of gars of different species = a GARmada! *all official #GarLab terminology of course👍

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3 years

I guess my referring to these as “water pancakes” would NOT be allowed by North American Field Herping Association 🙃🐢

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4 years

Water Pancake had places to go!

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4 years

Yes, but have you seen FROG tracks on your window? Friend/colleague Robby Maxwell has🐸 📷R.Maxwell

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4 years

Yes, even fish beg for food like other pets! Check out these begGARS🐟

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3 years

What a boopable snoot!

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6 years

RT @TheLabAndField : “Just heard on BBC Radio 4 Today: ‘I know you’re a scientist, so resist sentimentality’ Science isn’t (and shouldn’t be) devoid of emotion. Scientists shouldn’t fear showing emotional reactions to their science.” Me regarding my science:

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4 years

Reminder that Rainbow Darters, small freshwater fish, exist🌈🐟

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3 years

Just in time for Father’s Day: male Bowfin shepherding school of babies in a Bowfin Ball! Still on my bucket list to see this in person! FINtastic 🎥 @ToulouseAllen

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1 year

Unlike Tyrannosaurus rex, gars don’t have lips

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5 years

Sunday Tropical Gar just wants to boop snoots

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3 years

Aaand we gar VACCINATED.

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3 years

“How many y’all think in the bottom of that Phoenix?” DISGUSTING. Hey @OKWildlifeDept does this mass killing of native species look like good stewardship of our natural resources? We NEED bowfishing regulations to protect native fishes!

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3 years

CONSERVATION WIN!!! Social media outcry over wasteful killing of native species contributed to POLICY & MANAGEMENT CHANGE! Minnesota is set to be among first states to set harvest limits for gar! GARgantuan thanks @jbeckerfinn @reprickhansen @DaveOrrick !

What’s a gar and why is it the big winner at the Minnesota Capitol?

One of Minnesota’s oddest, perhaps coolest, and definitely historically underappreciated fish — the gar — is about to get some love.

www.twincities.com

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3 years

My two-year-old keeps saying “Triceratops” and I’m trying to explain we’re a Tyrannosaurus household🦖

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2 years

Believe it or not, that’s a freshwater fish! Stunning Longear Sunfish caught & released in southeastern Missouri! 📷Tyler Goodale

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6 months

FRIENDS, We are dedicating this year’s #GarWeek to the late Mark Spitzer, who we lost to cancer earlier this year (age 57). Mark was an amazing person, talented author & poet, friend, true champion of under-appreciated fishes. An OG gar conservationist.

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1 year

And if you’ve never seen Paddlefish eat, here you go: ^Paddlefish use that long snout (laced with electroreceptors) to detect plankton, then filter them out of water with their gaping mouths & sieve-like gill rakers!

💧🐟 Stuart Orr 🐟💧

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1 year

#46 A living fossil, the American paddlefish is the only member of its family left on Earth. With its undeveloped eyes, it relies on thousands of electroreceptors along its snout to search for prey & navigate. #Freshwater biodiversity is amazing

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6 months

#GARWEEK with @OKWildlifeDept & @TheGarLab swims into Day 2 with info coming at you about native fishes, aquatic invaders, and more! Here’s our team with @USFWSFisheries and a giant Alligator Gar from a Mississippi River floodplain (critical spawning habitat). Tagged & released!

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7 years

Makes no difference who you are...

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5 years

Recognizing my Mom for #InternationalWomansDay She immigrated here from India and worked tirelessly to support our family, but still took time to learn dinosaur names with me as a kid...eventually leading to dinosaur fishes! Thanks for your neverending support!

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