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Dr. Solomon David @solomonrdavid.bsky.social · May 1

My pet gar that I donated to Shedd Aquarium would recognize me and swim over to say hi when I visited her exhibit ❤️🐠

A rare hybrid gar, I raised her since she was 2 inches long, and had to re-home her when I moved to Chicago. I was happy I could visit her in her new home!

TO BE CONTINUED…

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SockyNoob (Check Pinned Pls) @sockynoob.bsky.social · 12h

Imagine this but with gar and I imagine @solomonrdavid.bsky.social would have one in his living room lol

ROSE @milkshakemotel.bsky.social · 2d

Portland art lovers and fans of unusual fish transportation MUST go see Sasha Fishman’s SHAD MODE at ILY2, there is a functional salmon cannon in the gallery with realistic weight hot pink rubber salmon you can chuck into it

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Dr. Solomon David @solomonrdavid.bsky.social · 15d

Releasing a massive Alligator Gar during @garlab.bsky.social research on a Mississippi River floodplain with collaborators from USFWS!

Learn more Nov 3-7 2025 for #GarWeek!

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Matthew L. Miller @matthewlmiller.bsky.social · 16h

Good to see Gray’s Sporting Journal covering “roughfish” & native fish conservation, including the work of @solomonrdavid.bsky.social.

Article in Gray’s Sporting Journsl titled “Trash Fish” about native fish conservation, written by long-time environmental journalist Ted Williams.

Cover of Gray’s Sporting Journal, an outdoor magazine.

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Nilo Sinnatamby @nilosinnatamby.bsky.social · 2d

Apparently an inactive taxon, here's a Tetra nurse (Brycinus nurse), to celebrate @lampichthys.bsky.social 's new addition. Congrats!

Happy first #SundayFishSketch!

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Liz Butler @lizlagomorph.bsky.social · 2d

A little nurse shark to celebrate Ava's first #SundayFishSketch.

A sketch of a young nurse shark in shades of green.

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Steven Ray Morris @stevenraymorris.bsky.social · 4d

It’s here! @ologies.bsky.social host and creator, @alieward.bsky.social, is on the See Jurassic Right Back To School Series today and we chat about the evolution of the pod, the dumbest questions she’s ever asked scientists, & more! The one you’ve been waiting for: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...

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Jen @jenelaina.bsky.social · 1d

I needed this effin a!

Dr. Solomon David @solomonrdavid.bsky.social · 1d

🎶Here Comes the Gar🎵

Hope this starts your week off well!

Reminder #GarWeek is coming November 3-7!

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Kate @dubchi5.bsky.social · 1d

Gar week is coming! It’s the little things in life right now that give me joy lol

Dr. Solomon David @solomonrdavid.bsky.social · 1d

🎶Here Comes the Gar🎵

Hope this starts your week off well!

Reminder #GarWeek is coming November 3-7!

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Betsy Sharkey @berkshirebetsy.bsky.social · 1d

Gar Week looks like it will be low anxiety, unlike shark week. 😅

Dr. Solomon David @solomonrdavid.bsky.social · 1d

🎶Here Comes the Gar🎵

Hope this starts your week off well!

Reminder #GarWeek is coming November 3-7!

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Andrew D Thaler @drandrewthaler.bsky.social · 1d

First oarfish sighting in Sri Lanka highlights citizen science in marine protection

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First oarfish sighting in Sri Lanka highlights citizen science in marine protection

COLOMBO — In the shadowy depths of the ocean lives a ribbon-like giant crowned with a fiery red crest — long mistaken for a sea monster. Rarely glimpsed alive, the oarfish holds the record as the worl...

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Dr. Solomon David @solomonrdavid.bsky.social · 1d

🎶Here Comes the Gar🎵

Hope this starts your week off well!

Reminder #GarWeek is coming November 3-7!

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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 1d

When fly designers subcontract Jackson Pollock to do the eyes. (Eristalinus sp. hover fly, Victoria, Australia).

A close-in macro photograph of the face of a robust greenish-yellow hover fly standing on a green leaf. The fly's enormous compound eyes are speckled with hundreds of blood-red spots.

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Anthony Ricciardi @ecoinvasions.bsky.social · 2d

Attempted eradication of smallmouth bass promotes rapid evolution. Here's the study that is the focus of the Scientific American article: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 2d

One of the midwest's most iconic insects, a goldenrod soldier beetle sits in a mid-summer aster. Indiana Dunes National Park.

Macro photo in full on view of a large yellow flower, with an elongated orange/yellow beetle with black legs, antennae, and markings standing on the petals just above the center.

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Titus Seilheimer @drfishsg.bsky.social · 2d

Almost on theme for #SundayFishSketch with the Blue Surgeonfish. Bet they could be a nurse too. Surgical nurse?

Blue and black fish with a yellow tail. Ink and watercolor sketch.

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Dr. Solomon David @solomonrdavid.bsky.social · 2d

Must have been something I gar-punned? 😅🙃

elmo from sesame street is sitting in front of a wooden wall and looking at the camera .

Alt: elmo from sesame street is sitting in front of a wooden wall and looking at the camera .

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Marshal Hedin @mhedin.bsky.social · 2d

the final push ...

male land-locked Kokanee moving upstream, Strawberry Res, UT

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American Museum of Natural History @amnh.org · 2d

Behold the striking colors of the blue-spotted stingray! Its bright spots are a warning to onlookers that it's venomous—& if its colors aren’t enough to ward off foes, it’s equipped w/ a tail that can inject a lethal dose of toxins.
Photo: Derek Keats, CC-BY-2.0, Wikimedia Commons