BLUE SUCKER!!! This was a bucket list fish for me for over 10 years, and GarLab Team got two during fieldwork this week! Excited that our crew got to see this unique native fish, with the body shape of a shark and face of a muppet! *safely released!

The Minnesota State Fair is underway! Visit the CFANS exhibit in the Agriculture Horticulture Building (right next to the giant pumpkins) to get hooked on gar. Discover why Dr. Solomon David studies these native Minnesota fish, and leave with a fresh appreciation for these living

Check out the CFANS exhibit featuring GarLab at Minnesota State Fair!!! Virtual reality video of field & lab research, massive +10 Longnose Gar backdrop, and FREE GAR STUFF!!! 📸 via CFANS/J.Thompson

THE EXCITEMENT of catching a NEW (to me) fish species!!! As always, fieldwork is a big team effort, thanks claire for filming AND assist with the capture! Fish safely released👍

FINtastic CFANS display featuring a Longnose Gar and GarLab research at the Minnesota State Fair! Had to check it out for myself at the end of Day 1!

CFANS GarLab Minnesota State Fair University of Minnesota WAIT, I know that guy…🐟🧐😂👍

Check us out Minnesota State Fair! Minnesota State Fair info: mnstatefair.org/schedule/get-h… CFANS GarLab exhibit info: cfans.umn.edu/fair2024

Check out this week’s episode with PhD candidate, Lauren Diaz! We chat about her work simulating steelhead life history diversity, how her master’s research on hellbenders led to a love of stream ecology, why education is so important to her, and more! podbean.com/ew/pb-48pgd-16…

Took the kids to the State Fair today— of course we had to check out GarLab’s VgaR goggles. They were very excited about their gar hat reward.

How well do you know your gars? On this week's episode of Fish of the Week, our guest is Solomon David (the "Gar Guy") fws.gov/fish-of-the-we… 🐟 From left: alligator, Florida, spotted, & longnose gar from above, with juveniles. 📷 Zach Randall/Florida Museum of Natural History

Check out the latest episode of Fish of the Week U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service: “All About Gars!” player.captivate.fm/episode/57f965…

Ran into Dr. Solomon David and GarLab today at the Minnesota State Fair. Super excited about this great gar hat I picked up. Even more excited about the native fish work they do in MN! #conservation

Sarah Strommen Dr. Solomon David GarLab Minnesota State Fair Minnesota is trailblazing the way on this important issue!

THANK YOU Minnesota DNR Commissioner Sarah Strommen for the kind words, and enthusiastically accepting (and wearing!) a CFANS GarLab hat! It was FINtastic to finally meet in person too; we appreciate all you and your team do for Minnesota’s native fish!

So Goldy the Gopher (official) and I went for a paddle Minnesota State Fair and noticed something unusual in the water…

New from myself Thomas Near - a new taxonomy of sturgeons based on phylogenetic relationships!

Gar Cart.

So CFANS gave us the tall poster from their Minnesota State Fair gar exhibit, and obviously I was compelled to do this 😂👍 Star Wars? Gar Wars:

Actually, she’s saying “gars”

Me and a Minnesota River friend from yesterday’s fieldwork: