A baby alligator gar turning up in a Mississippi floodplain may sound like a small discovery, but conservationists see it as ...

At Loch Leven, a 6,000-acre former farm surrounded by a levee built before the Civil War, the Nature Conservancy led a ...

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 ...

A fishing trip turns into a close encounter with a massive alligator gar, an ancient-looking fish often compared to a living dinosaur. After hooking the powerful animal, the team carefully brings it ...

Anglers interested in hooking into an epic-sized trophy fish can apply for a 2026 alligator gar trophy tag from now until the end of 2025. Many Arkansas anglers travel all the way to the Gulf of ...

Sometime between 5.5 and 5.6 million years ago, two shell crushers squared off in the languid currents of an ancient Florida river. The fossils they left behind, discovered by paleontologists at the ...

D’IBERVILLE, Miss. (WLOX) - Over the weekend, anglers from across the Coast battled it out on the water in the annual Alligator Gar Rodeo in D’Iberville. Held under the I-110 bridge, the tournament ...

NEEDVILLE, Texas (KTRK) -- An 18-year-old from Needville has quite the fish tale! Jack Pytel shared photos with ABC13 of his big catch - a 190-pound, 7'5" alligator gar. He said he was in a creek near ...

Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the University of Southampton, and specializes in animal behavior, evolution, palaeontology, and the environment. Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the ...