A young Black marine biologist finds his passion with an ancient fish. blog.nature.org/2024/04/07/a-f…

Longnose Gar Fishing 🎣🍽️

Checking in on the GARmada!

Dr. Solomon David Arizona Museum of Natural History. As I was taking the pic my wife said “you should send it to that professor who makes all the gar jokes” and I was like “that’s the plan!”

TODAY in Minnesota!
The Longnose Gars (pictured) and Shortnose Gars are getting more active as things warm up!

📸C.Vaughn; all fish released during fisheries agency survey👍

Until we protect our native species with harvest limits, these sorts of trash events will continue.

This is in Michigan; no limit on “rough fish” shooting (take all the invasive carp you want, but most of these are native fish).

BUT the dead fish go to wildlife rehab! SMH.

We got to chat gars, living fossils, and the importance of native fishes with Leah Beno FOX 9! fox9.com/news/prehistor…

Dr. Solomon David Alyssa Rausch GarLab It’s worth the trip.

That time me & JD Schooley went into business together 😂😎👍

📸Alyssa Rausch (newest member GarLab)

PADDLEFISH by Rebecca Groom 🐗🪲 gets to join my other long-snouted friends in my office GarLab!

A U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service #BirdsVsFish #SciComm tale in 4 photos. instagram.com/p/C5YhBV_OHTQ/…

THANK YOU for humoring my GARish request! 😂😂😍👍

Even baby Alligator Gars breathe air!

Look at these tiny twigs (their patterns help them blend in with floating vegetation) with the occasional breach for air (bubbles!) cc Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation

Check it out! Kati Wright & TX Parks & Wildlife team’s hybrid gar catch featured in story Houston Chronicle!

“Student catches one of the rarest gar in the country from Texas river” chron.com/life/wildlife/…

📸1 Kati & field team w/ Alligator Gar
📸2 close-up of hybrid gar
*all fish released👍

“Kati Wright, a master’s student Nicholls State University in Louisiana, hauled a six-foot, alligator-longnose hybrid out of the Trinity River in Texas, an extremely rare find”

Shoutout to hybrid gar caught (and released) by Kati Wright & TX Parks & Wildlife in story National Geographic! nationalgeographic.com/animals/articl…

WELCOME Alyssa Rausch, GarLab’s first PhD student!!!

Deadline for Underappreciated #NativeFishes SI is extended to 30 April 2024!

“If it all works out, there would be a delicious bit of irony for David, who spends a lot of time trying to change minds about fish that have long been persecuted for being ugly and of no commercial value.”

Thanks Jason Bittel for the story National Geographic!!! nationalgeographic.com/animals/articl…

Ironically, the first citation of our paper about how tweeting does not cause increases in citations, is 100% because a journalist saw the tweets about our paper. Nice piece in nature
nature.com/articles/d4158…

Dive into the depths of Minnesota's fishing culture with 'Little Fish, Big Problems' airing this Sunday at 7:30pm on Prairie Sportsman! Discover the problem with dumping baitfish + learn how you can make a difference in preserving our aquatic ecosystems. pioneer.org/blogs/pressroo…

A dream of this nat-geo reading kid just came true today nationalgeographic.com/animals/articl…

Thomas Near Dr. Solomon David