DHS posted the image in support of a new migrant detention facility that conservatives dubbed "Alligator Alcatraz." ...

Noraisyah explained that originally, these fish were introduced in Malaysia as aquarium pets, but they are often released into local waters when they become too large to keep. The alligator gar ...

This "living fossil" can grow as large as an alligator, has two rows of needle-sharp teeth, and such strong armor that it survived predatory dinosaurs.

Alligator gar can measure more than 8 feet long and weigh over 300 pounds. Here are some of the biggest ever caught. Print Subscription-$35 for the Best Field & Stream Stories · Subscribe Today.

A large Sheepshead (Archosargus probatocephalus), cruising the bottom of the rock jetty about 60 feet deep in the channel of St. Andrew Bay leading to the Gulf of Mexico in Panama City Beach, Florida.

If his record is approved, Weston will have 10 IGFA world records for alligator gar. He already holds the line-class records for the species in the 2-, 6-, 8-, 12-, 16-, 50-, 80-, and 130-pound ...

DR. SOLOMON DAVID: They definitely are an oddball fish. When people ask what a gar looks like, I tell them to picture a crocodile or an alligator with fins instead of legs, and that’s basically what a ...

Alligator gar, the second largest species of freshwater fish in North America, occurs in many of Arkansas' large rivers. These gar can grow longer than 7 feet from tail to snout and can weigh more ...

It is a small gar, but still a large fish, at almost 4 feet long. Good start, but not what we are after. We take a few pictures, and Emily gently releases her catch.

Related: Giant Goldfish Weighing 67 Lbs. Caught by Fisherman – See the Photos! Now, the alligator gar, which the fishermen released back into the reservoir, is being reviewed by IGFA for two ...

A Kentucky fisherman, Art Weston, caught a 283-pound alligator gar fish while fishing in ... See the Photos! Now, ... He said the species can grow so large because they have an expansive habitat ...

Art Weston is waiting to hear whether his catch will break two records. Kirk Kirkland / Facebook. An angler in Texas made the catch of a lifetime when he reeled in a 283-pound alligator gar that ...