A Kentucky fisherman, Art Weston, caught a 283-pound alligator gar fish while fishing in Deep East, Texas, ... Giant Sunfish Discovered Near Portugal Is Heaviest Recorded Bony Fish in the World ...

Nowadays, most people fish along the riverbanks upstream, he said, although the bites are sparser and, sometimes, you end up hooking a silver or bighead carp or a species of gar, or what he called ...

One of Minnesota's oddest, perhaps coolest, and definitely historically underappreciated fish -- the gar -- is about to get some love. Skip to content. ... but their bony mouths tend to resist hooks.

A Kentucky fisherman caught a massive, 283-pound alligator gar fish that is likely to set records. A Kentucky fisherman reeled in a big one — a really big one.

Dismissed by some as a gamefish-devouring, muddy-water-dwelling trash species, the alligator gar is nonetheless heralded by a growing number of devotees as a premier sport fish—hard fighting ...

Neither was Dave Bartel, the white manager of the James River Water Development District, who called gar "a real bony fish and pretty worthless in the long run." ...

Neither was Dave Bartel, the white manager of the James River Water Development District, who called gar "a real bony fish and pretty worthless in the long run." ...

The paper’s authors zeroed in on a primitive bony fish called the gar. Unlike other bony fish or sharks, its denticles contain an enamel-like substance called ganoin. The gar’s genome, which was ...

The very first bony fish on Earth was susceptible to arthritis, according to a new discovery that may fast-track therapeutic research in preventing or easing the nation's most common cause of ...

The genome of a slowly evolving fish, the spotted gar, ... The genetic importance is traced to some 450 million years ago, when bony vertebrates split into two major groups.

Gar fish are covered by diamond-shaped, ganoid scales and bony skull plates and have long snouts/jaws with many sharp teeth. A primitive extension of the intestine, termed the spiral valve ...

Several sightings of gar (freshwater and marine fish which can grow over 10 feet long and reach over 350 pounds) have also been mistaken for monsters.