The Mississippi River hides a diverse array of elusive wildlife beneath its muddy waters, including bowfins, hellbenders, ...

Alligator gar and their direct ancestors have been around for at least 100 million years. They look their age. That long, cylindrical, olive-white body is covered with an armor of thick, ...

The Missouri Department of Conservation is restocking alligator gar to keep populations balanced in local fisheries. Stocking efforts first began in 2007 at Mingo National Wildlife Refuge in Stoddard ...

Fish, a gar and a catfish, both native to the Mississippi River swim in an aquarium at the Mississippi River Museum in Tunica, Mississippi on Feb, 7, 2025 (© Karen Pulfer Focht) The Hernando DeSoto ...