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My pet gar that I donated to Shedd Aquarium would recognize me and swim over to say hi when I visited her exhibit ❤️🐠 A rare hybrid gar, I raised her since she was 2 inches long, and had to re-home her when I moved to Chicago. I was happy I could visit her in her new home! TO BE CONTINUED…

Sturgeon or DRAGON? Cool shot by @garlab.bsky.social PhD student Griffin Blegen of characteristic protective bony plates (scutes) on a juvenile Lake Sturgeon 🐉

seeing them jump is mindblowing. seeing the big ones at all, frankly, is a lot.

Not to be confused with Gobioides broussonnetii, often called the Dragon Goby.

Why not both? 😊

River Dragon

I have a friend who has told stories of just casually walking along the Fraser river and seeing massive sturgeon surfacing. It sounds like such an incredible experience, I wish I could spend more time along the Fraser in the right places.

Sturgeon or DRAGON? Cool shot by @garlab.bsky.social PhD student Griffin Blegen of characteristic protective bony plates (scutes) on a juvenile Lake Sturgeon 🐉

I'm shipping out Freaky Fish totes starting tomorrow! Get yours today so you get them in the first migration outta here Get one at SquidFacts.net

Advice for U.S. Government Scientists: Lessons Learned From the ‘Muzzling’ of Their Canadian Counterparts • I wrote this for The Revelator right before the second Trump administration started, and people called me alarmist.

Nearly all the world’s coral reefs are at risk of collapse within 50 years, IUCN warns | Few people in the history of the world are more responsible for this preventable catastrophe than Donald Trump. Care about coral reefs? Vote for Democrats and not Republicans.

The Malagarasi River in Tanzania. One of the most special places I’ve ever visited. Large mammals, cool fishes and wild country…it doesn’t get much better. #flyfishing #wildrivers

Three years ago, my dad said that all fish are the same shape. Out of spite, I decided to draw all 478 families of bony fish listed in Nelson 2016. There's still some stuff I need to edit and some fish I want to redraw but, after 985 days, I finished my big dumb fish project last night.

Just got the o-fish-ial first copy of my second book, “why sustainable seafood matters!” After years of research, writing, and edits, it’s an amazing feeling to hold it in my hands! You can get your own copy, available for preorder now and coming out in November. @hopkinspress.bsky.social

Fish market on the shores of Lake Tanganyika. Kigoma, Tanzania.

If you need me, I’ll be staring at this alligator gar scan all day. The fish was so big that I had to drive all the way to UT Austin to scan it. This particular animal has a tooth the grew straight through its skull

Evening of doodling

Great white shark leaps from water and photobombs California beachgoers

Shortnose Gar from the Minnesota River! New @garlab.bsky.social PhD student Griffin Blegen getting to work on some photoGARphy🐟📸👍

Tigerfish on the fly. Western Tanzania. #flyfishing

Diner full of people packing up native plant seeds warms my heart

Comebacks for wild tigers, tuna and sea turtles prove nature loss can be reversed, scientists say

Zebra cichlid (Lobochilotes labiata) caught in Lake Tanganyika, Tanzania on a Rooster Tail spinner.

GAR WEEK 2026 is coming!!! Gar Week is November 16-20, 2026! @garlab.bsky.social Trailer here👇

Gar, gar never changes.

I love Gar Week - it fills that gap between Edmund Fitzgerald season and Thanksgiving.

GAR WEEK 2026 is coming!!! Gar Week is November 16-20, 2026! @garlab.bsky.social Trailer here👇

Can I get a fish expert, either illustrator, scientist, or outdoors person familiar with anatomy who I can email my sketch of a Sacramento perch to check the gill cover/facial anatomy of art I’m doing for park signage? Fish are still a new-ish subject for me and I need fresh eyes plz. #SciArt 🐟

🐺 Piscium, serpentum, insectorum, aliorumque nonnullorum animalum nec non plantarum quarundam imagines: [Germany]: Georgii Wolfgangi Knorrii, 1777 ( [Source]

Willkommen Bienvenue Welcome Im CaBUGaret Au CaBUGaret To CaBUGaret

I like how you included a cabuGARet pun just for @solomonrdavid.bsky.social

Mentally I’m here. Caught some awesome alligator gar in the San Jacinto River yesterday. Happy to see so many giants thriving so close to the Houston metro area

So proud of Alex & team for getting this project out into the wild. We can manage our native fishes better and hope this might be a good first step. Speaking for myself - I want these species, including the giants (e.g., alligator gar, pic 👇) around in the future. @solomonrdavid.bsky.social

🚨 New paper led by grad student Alex Ginez! So many native fishes are still labeled as “rough fish” and given no management attention, and often unlimited harvest - still! But are these fishes actually capable of sustaining high harvest? academic.oup.com/fisheries/ad... A thread on the study 🧵👇

The SPEAKER implies. The LISTENER infers. The DUDE abides.

Pumpkin spice gars

Fall colors really coming in on our young-of-year Alligator Gars @garlab.bsky.social 🍂🍁

It’s o-fish-ial, Maryland is now the first US state with an official state shark. I wrote about megalodon, which is definitely extinct, a few weeks ago. www.southernfriedscience.com/fun-facts-an...

Hope your day was better than Darwin’s, on this day 165 years ago

Bison have the right of way. Yellowstone National Park.

Wake up babe new shark just dropped

Whatever you do, don’t eat hakarl at a job interview. Many people find the scent of fermented Greenland shark flesh, prepared by burying it for a year to remove the toxicity from urea in their flesh, to be unpleasant. Raises real questions about how you’d fit in with the team.

Fun* fact: The SHARKED Act is, according to my sources on the Hill, the first time that Congress created a back-ronym name for a law using ChatGPT.