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Guest Post: Adventures with Bowfin, North America’s Underdog(fish)

The folks at the Nature Conservancy’s “Cool Green Science” blog have invited our postdoc, Solomon David, to write about primitive fishes for them – here’s his latest post: It’s a fish that lived alongside dinosaurs, and held its own: A slimy and voracious creature with a mouth full of sharp teeth. And you don’t have …

Fish Fry Day Video: An Encounter with a Prehistoric Fish

Followers of this blog will know that Soloman David, the post-doctoral researcher we share with the Shedd Aquarium, is an unapologetic lover of prehistoric fish and a whiz with a GoPro camera. For this Friday, he sent in a recent encounter with a bowfin.  Bowfin (also known as dogfish or mudfish) are a truly remarkable …