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Inside the coprolite, scientists identified several feathers, tiny scales from a gar fish, and leg bones belonging to a hesperornithiform bird.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 11, 2026

This has likely kept gar genomes so stable that species and even genera whose last common ancestor lived more than 100 million years ago have diverged very little.

From Science Magazine ● Mar. 8, 2024

We grab our soap and wade out into the river’s side channel for a wash-up and dip before breakfast, hoping a gar doesn’t rub up against our legs with its jagged teeth and prehistoric scales.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 2, 2023

Local authorities identified it as an alligator gar — a torpedo-shaped freshwater fish with razor-sharp teeth — and launched an operation to capture it.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 25, 2022

There were eels, gar, carp, river carpsuckers, gizzard shad, and buffalo.

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson

Prehistoric-looking fish called gars, which have the slowest rate of molecular evolution of all jawed vertebrates, are the most striking examples.

From Science Magazine ● Mar. 8, 2024

“Economically, of course, it’s not worth it. Are we going to drain every lake when we spot gars there?” he said.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 25, 2022

I always loved the huge alligator snapping turtle, watch your hands, but the huge gars, alligator gars and catfish are gone forever.

From New York Times ● Mar. 26, 2018

The gars, a family of fish with long bodies, extended jaws, sharp teeth, and hard scales, has been on the planet for at least 100 million years.

From The Verge ● Dec. 20, 2015

Some of the beg gars look too young to have even taken the Trial.

From "Legend" by Marie Lu

So I was thinking, but what garred ye be whistling in my lug that she was a Princess?

From Patsy by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett

Robin Fordyce," says the old lady severely, "what garred ye loose Heatherbell in among the neeps.

From The Right Stuff Some Episodes in the Career of a North Briton by Ian Hay

Sandy gaed inby to the shafts, but he sprang back when Princie ga'e a squeek an' garred his heels play tnack on the boddom o' the cairt.

From My Man Sandy by J. B. Salmond

Then she took it across her knee and garred it play snap like a rotten branch.

From The Men of the Moss-Hags Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett

It would be aboot ane o'clock or thereaboot when Sandy gae me a daud wi' his elba that garred me a' jump.

From My Man Sandy by J. B. Salmond

The deil's in you, Monkbarns, for garring odds and evens meet.

From The Antiquary — Volume 02 by Sir Walter Scott