Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jul. 23—Over the years, gar have gotten a bad wrap for being a main consumer of game and sport fish, but that may be because the ...

I remember my first encounter with an alligator gar. I was 10 years old fishing with my dad on Lake Buchanan. We had just set up camp and couldn’t wait to get our lines baited and in the water. About ...

The alligator gar, and other gar species, are “living fossils” that it shows little species diversity or physical differences from ancestors that lived tens of millions of years ago. Credit: Solomon ...

The Mississippi River floodplains are home to one of Earth’s most impressive river monsters: the alligator gar. Known to science as Atractosteus spatula, it is the largest of the gar species alive ...

Angler Art Weston continues his mission of catching record-breaking alligator gar. With the help of Texas Captain Kirk Kirkland, Weston has obtained every line class world record for alligator gar, ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. A huge alligator gar caught in a Texas lake has set a new record for ...