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!
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…
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👍
Stickers featuring a gar fish wearing a red knitted cap, clearly indicating gars are against the current ICE occupation of the Twin Cities in Minnesota (or anywhere!)
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
A bowfin (fish) closeup in an aquarium. It appears to have a concerned expression on its face. Probably because Minnesota is currently occupied and there’s a lot of other crazy stuff happening.
Empathetic Bowfin asks “How are you doing?”
Sorry not sorry.
Gars and Minnesotans WILL outlast ICE👍
*sound, on NSFW
🎥remixed from TJ Jaskowski
An Alligator Gar head is seen in the snow in front of a University of Minnesota sign.
GARgantuan pride in our state today❤️
Headshot of an Alligator Gar (fish) in an aquarium. The “expression” on the fish’s face looks concerned (from a human perspective).
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:
A fish scientist at a public aquarium with two Alligator Gar (fish) behind him.
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 🥁
