Are There Any Fish Who've Evolved From This Fish?

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Miranda panda wants to know, are there any fish who have evolved from this fish? And reversely, is there any way of knowing they evolved from, or have they just been around too long to tell? What's their back story and who's evolved from them? Ye, i would say gars ave been doing their own thing. The way sort of filegenetically on the tree of life had sort of branched off. We're pretty sure that there's other gar species out there besides the samon that we know what seven are those imi o run down a hoose hoo of society gar, at least the discovered species.

A long snout. Hundreds of teeth. Scales that could slice you. What is a gar and should we fear it? Should we hug it? One of the world’s most passionate and knowledgeable experts on this ancient, mysterious fish joins to make you fall in love with these slimy longbois. Dr. Solomon David is affable, charming, enthusiastic and absolutely shameless when it comes to fish puns. Slip into some hip waders and jump in the muck to learn all about a creature that -- despite decades of mudslinging -- is not a gar-bage fish. Also: why gar caviar is a hella bad idea.

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