Urban lakes usually aren’t home to record-breaking fish, but Orlando’s Lake Lawne is going into the record books not once, but twice. It’s all thanks to Pat McDaniel and the Florida gar. McDaniel’s ...

Crooked gar isn’t a known species, but a unique longnose gar caught by a Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission biologist must not have gotten the message. On July 2, the FWC Fish and ...

A prehistoric jet black river creature with shark-like teeth has been caught in the Choctawhatchee River in Florida. The melanistic longnose gar was found by the Fish and Wildlife Research Institute ...

ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. — Channel 9 photographer Ulen Hodges captured an interesting photograph Tuesday while covering flooding in Orange County’s Orlo Vista neighborhood. The community, which sits south ...

July 8 (UPI) --Researchers with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission shared an unusual catch from a recent fish survey -- a longnose gar with a crooked back. The FWC's Fish and ...

They have irregular, round, black spots on the top of the head, over the entire body and on all the fins. Other gars, except for spotted gars, have spots on the fins and usually on the posterior part ...

Living in Florida is never boring. It may be hot, but we get excited when a "cold front" is predicted that will drop temperatures into the 80s or, gasp, the 70s. And who knows, we might — emphasize ...