Image of magazine article about fish conservation and floodplain restoration featuring an Alligator Gar illustration.

Image of magazine article about fish conservation and floodplain restoration featuring an Alligator Gar illustration.

FINtastic #GARtwork by Tim Tomkinson for story by Lindsey Liles on our Alligator Gar conservation and floodplain restoration work with @nfwfnews.bsky.social @nature.org and USFWS!

In print in the latest issue of GARden & Gun magazine, online article here: gardenandgun.com/feature/in-p...

A fish scientist holds an Alligator Gar with a bayou and clouds in the background. The scientist is indeed a doctor, as opposed to a particular president.

“I thought it was me as a doctor”

Fish scientist holds a juvenile Lake Sturgeon toward the camera, above a holding tank.

Coming at you from Sturgeon Lab— I mean GarLab, dangit 😅

My Fisheries Science class helped collect data on Lake Sturgeon today!

NASA image of “the far side of the moon” but overlaid with an image of Alligator Gar (fish) jaws.

It’s actually called “the gar side of the moon” 🌒

A towel is placed over the eyes of an Alligator Gar to calm it down during measurements prior to release. The towel has the University of Michigan block M on it (GarLab PI Solomon David’s Alma Mater).

Go BLUE!!!
GAR BLUE!!!

VOTE for your 2026 GARch Madness Champion here in our IG poll: bit.ly/4e3o3dV

Open for next 24 hours!

A gar painted in bright colors

Even the gar are fabulous here in San Francisco - yes I already told @solomonrdavid.bsky.social and @thegarfather.bsky.social

@solomonrdavid.bsky.social may I offer you one gar? As an Easter offering?

CHAMPIONSHIP GARch Madness match-up!
Blue chip Alligator Gar vs underdog Florida Gar!

Who wins the 2026 tourney?

Welp, we now have more sturgeon than gars @garlab.bsky.social. No April Fool’s.

And no I will NOT be renaming the lab 😅

Video ALT: short video clip of several juvenile Lake Sturgeon swimming in a cooler.

An elite eight basketball bracket image but with 8 gars instead of basketball teams. Really. Alligator Gar, Longnose Gar, Hybrid Gar, Cuban Gar, Tropical Gar, Florida Gar, Shortnose Gar, Spotted Gar.

GARch Madness bracket will full shots of the seven extant gar species + a hybrid (Spotted x Alligator Gar)🏀🐟

An elite eight basketball bracket image but with 8 gars instead of basketball teams. Really. Alligator Gar, Longnose Gar, Hybrid Gar, Cuban Gar, Tropical Gar, Florida Gar, Shortnose Gar, Spotted Gar.

Who you got winning GARch Madness??? 🐟🏀😎

Credits (photos, illustrations, design): @garlab.bsky.social team & @zankurus.bsky.social

Cover photo of the World Wildlife Fund’s Migratory Fishes report.

Photo of a European Eel underwater.

NEW: Global Assessment of Migratory Freshwater Fishes @worldwildlife.org
www.worldwildlife.org/publications...

“Vital freshwater fish migrations are collapsing; hundreds of species need urgent, coordinated cross-border action”

Please share!

Shedd Aquarium visitors checking out gars circa 1940s!

New animal book “Grizzled” in the jaws of an Alligator Gar (fish) skull; one of the species featured in Jason Bittel’s new book!

Gar scientist Solomon David can be seen peering from behind the pages of the Alligator Gar chapter of Jason Bittel’s new book, “Grizzled.”

Excited to contribute to the Alligator Gar chapter in “Grizzled: Love Letters to 50 of North America’s Least Understood Animals,” by National Geographic Explorer @bittelmethis.bsky.social!

FINtastic stories on Wolverines, Axolotls, Grizzly Bears, and more: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/804002...

A golden gar (aka xanthic gar) fish is pictured with the logo for the Oscars next to it. The logo has been modified to read “Osgars” instead of “Oscars,” because the post author will take any gar pun opportunity available. Have a good evening.

Remember, you COULD watch the #Oscars or you could watch the OsGARS😎👍

You keep doing you, Marine Alligator Gar 😎👍

Indeed, Alligator Gars (and several other gar species) can live in full saltwater! This lives full-time in a marine exhibit with tarpon, sharks, and a sea turtle!

7 of the World’s Little-Known Fish Migrations Most readers will know of the epic salmon migrations. But have you head of these other fascinating freshwater fish migrations?

Move over salmon. Here are some lesser-known but no less spectacular fish migrations, including redhorse, sharptooth catfish & Nopili rock-climbing goby.

Plus gar with @solomonrdavid.bsky.social.

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

Effectively embodies Fatboy Slim 😅

A fish scientist kneels next to a sign that reads “Down on the Bayou” and the lettering features different animals, including a gar (fish)!

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!

Meet the Air-Breathing Fish with Poisonous Eggs YouTube video by Bizarre Beasts

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!

Closeup of an Alligator Gar (fish) in an aquarium.

Good morning from this Alligator Gar 🐠

Photo of figure skater Alysa Liu (Olympic gold medal winner!)

Headshot of a Spotted Gar (fish) showing a banded pattern on the snout.

Obviously going for a GARish look 😎👍

Two large Alligator Gar skulls draped in Mardi Gras beads, with the text “Mardi Gars” across the bottom. Play on words with gars, because that’s what the post author does.

Laissez les Bon Temps Rouler!

Happy Mardi Gras from the…

When the Earth Was Green: Plants, Animals, and Evolution's Greatest Romance Plants, Animals, and Evolution's Greatest Romance

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? 😅