Here’s what this gar actually sounds like, when encountered at the @audubonnature.bsky.social aquarium in New Orleans. Effectively embodies Fatboy Slim 😅

Took the @garlab.bsky.social team to @audubonnature.bsky.social while in New Orleans for the southern division @amfisheriessoc.bsky.social conference! Our Gar & Bowfin conservation & management symposium is tomorrow!

More on why you should NOT eat gar eggs in our episode @bizarrebeastsshow.bsky.social: youtu.be/Bcz67-n4GZg

Do NOT eat gar eggs!!! 🤢🤮

Bonus wisdom:

The @garlab.bsky.social team loved visiting the Great Lakes Aquarium! That’s one BIG Burbot 😅

BEHOLD the largest freshwater fish species in the world: the Beluga Sturgeon! FINALLY got to see one in person at the Great Lakes Aquarium in Duluth along with the @garlab.bsky.social Team at the @mnafs.bsky.social @amfisheriessoc.bsky.social meeting! What an incredible fish!

Good morning from this Alligator Gar 🐠

Obviously going for a GARish look 😎👍

Laissez les Bon Temps Rouler! Happy Mardi Gras from the…

Need some time wandering prehistoric forests? I'll take you there in When the Earth Was Green, out in hardcover, ebook, and audiobook (paperback on May 5th!). 🌱

Indeed gars are fashion trendsetters! Here’s an Alligator Gar wearing a snail as a hat! 🐟🐌🎩 Also, how slow (or slowly evolving?) do you have to be for a snail to climb on to your head? 😅

In MN everyone over 62 can take classes for just 10$ a credit and I am gonna learn all about gar from @solomonrdavid.bsky.social in ten years …

On the importance of “native rough fish” in Minnesota and to aquatic ecosystems overall👍 www.mankatofreepress.com/sports/outdo... Thanks for the story Roy Heilman at the Mankato Free Press!

Artists, quote with something silly! Gar illustration using non-dominant hand and MS Paint! From the old #MSpaintYourScience trend: eos.org/geofizz/expl...

Once considered 'junk,' native rough fish soon could see new catch limits, protections www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0... @mprnews.org @kirstimarohn.bsky.social

Longnose Gars and other native fish friends at the Mall of America Sealife Aquarium in Minnesota 🐠

How understanding Alligator Gars can help Mississippi River floodplain restoration! @nfwfnews.bsky.social New conservation story: gardenandgun.com/feature/in-p...

Here’s the @jeopardyofficial.bsky.social GAR question based on our team’s living fossil study (led by @chasedbrownstein.bsky.social @dmacguig.bsky.social)!

I was sent a stack of these many years ago by @drandrewthaler.bsky.social, going to figure out how to give them away in coordination with donations to www.standwithminnesota.com Standby👍

I just learned the history, and current significance, of red knitted hats to resistance movements: www.npr.org/2026/01/31/n... Makes these gar stickers I received (years ago) from @drandrewthaler.bsky.social even more relevant today, especially here in Minnesota!

@garlab.bsky.social -themed content on Jeopardy tonight! A 2024 study found that gars’ evolution was at a virtual standstill, at .00009 of THESE GENETIC CHANGES per million years… 🐟🦑☠️

honestly this is exactly how your most empathetic friend approaches you. At an angle, neutral face…close but not overwhelming. listening, ready to support whatever emotion you might display in whatever way you need it…an icon

Empathetic Bowfin asks “How are you doing?”

Sorry not sorry. Gars and Minnesotans WILL outlast ICE👍 *sound, on NSFW 🎥remixed from TJ Jaskowski

GARgantuan pride in our state today❤️

Indeed this young Alligator Gar @garlab.bsky.social appears concerned with the state of things here in Minnesota…

Gars! Sturgeons! er..medium sized blobby looking fish...? um...smaller fish that isn't a gar or sturgeon... Turtle!

It’s A LOT right now. I needed to take a breath, maybe you do too? Perhaps with some of my favorite fishes, right here in Minnesota:

Took a little time for myself to visit some friends. *taking a mental break at an aquarium housed in Mall of America (where ICE often stages) is a curious juxtaposition, but these are unprecedented times.

Please enjoy a break with like, 100 gar; if you need one👍 Although they are predatory fish, they’re also quite social, one might even say...greGARious 🥁

Alligator Gar (Atractosteus spatula)🧐🤔

And that’s a wrap on 2025 @garlab.bsky.social! GARgantuan thanks to our students, collaborators, and friends for their ongoing work and support of our freshwater conservation efforts!

December Fieldwork Recap! From the frigid Mississippi River in Minnesota to Louisiana & Mississippi (which were also frigid), the @garlab.bsky.social team saw big gars, smaller gars, blobfish and more!

Making ornaments with the kids, so I present to you the Fishmas… “Doughfin” #25DaysOfFishmas

From a serious-looking sculpin to the Arctic's only air-breathing fish, the Northwest leg of the #25DaysofFishmas road trip was full of surprises! Our trip's almost done, but not without a final stop in the Northeast + #GreatLakes region - because there's no place like H.O.M.E.S. for the holidays!

Submit your abstracts by January 16th 2026! More details: units.fisheries.org/mnafs/mn-afs...

BIGGEST Longnose Gar for the @garlab.bsky.social team! At 60.5 inches (154 cm), this fish was a true giant for its species. Caught-tagged-released, it will help us learn more about river-floodplain connectivity👍 I’m aiming the fish toward our collaborators’ sonar, so we can track/measure it! 🧪🐟

Guess how big these two Alligator Gars were? Sorry not sorry 😅

There was a time when every living room in America had a copy of this record.

Colorado pikeminnow was one of the first fishes put on the federal Endangered Species list in 1973 due to a combo of overharvest by settlers, introduction of nonnative species + most significantly, large dams and human water use that altered river flows + restricted their movement #25DaysofFishmas

🎶I’m dreaming of a white… salmon?🎶 European settlers called the Colorado pikeminnow “white salmon” because adults can migrate long distances (>200 miles) to find suitable spawning habitat in canyons. Once eggs hatch, the larvae drift downstream to backwater habitats where they grow #25DaysofFishmas

Despite lacking any teeth on their jaws, Colorado pikeminnows are the top native predators in the Colorado River basin. They do have long, curved teeth in their throat (pharyngeal teeth) that help them process prey (mostly fish, but whatever they can catch!) that they swallow whole #25DaysofFishmas

While “large minnow” sounds like an oxymoron on par with “jumbo shrimp”, the Colorado pikeminnow historically grew nearly 6 ft/2 m long and could weigh over 80 lbs/40 kg. These days, however, the largest individuals are typically less than 4 ft/1.2 m long #25DaysofFishmas

The Colorado pikeminnow was historically found in large warm-water rivers throughout the - you guessed it - Colorado River basin in both the US and Mexico. They now occupy ~25% of their historical range and are only found in the Upper Basin (mostly in Utah + Colorado) #25DaysofFishmas

Colorado pikeminnow is one of 4 species of pikeminnows (Ptychocheilus genus), all found in western North America + all large, predatory fish in the Leuciscidae (minnow) family. Though none grow as large - or as old (50+ years!) - as the Colorado pikeminnow! #25DaysofFishmas

If you can think of a better fish for Day 8 of #25DaysofFishmas, let minnow! Westward ho, we go on our #Fishmas road trip to the canyon rivers of the Intermountain West, home of the Colorado Pikeminnow (Ptychocheilus lucius), a minnow who's no small fry - meet the largest minnow in North America!

Let talk gars for fishmas day 37! Shoutout to @solomonrdavid.bsky.social, the gar man himself!

WAIT, there’s a GAR in Fallout??? Very cool! And also on-brand that nuclear war didn’t change their appearance much 😂😎👍

Final Fantasy XIV has a number of Gar species!