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Tell me, is this good? Last week, Oklahoma angler Gabe Brannick set out with High Water Guide Service to fish for some paddlefish on the Neosho River. However, this guided trip quickly turned into one Brannick will never forget… Because he reeled in a MASSIVE 110.1 pound bighead carp, which ordinarily would be good enough to earn him an IGFA world record, however, because he snagged it while looking for paddlefish, it won’t count. The world record doesn’t recognize snagging as a method of catch according to Field & Stream. And on top of that, he blew the previous record...

The brain has been hiding inside a fossil fish skull and it's now revealing secrets of animal evolution. Illustration of a small gray fish with a dark stripe down its side with an extra bit showing what its little pink brain looked like.This artist's rendering shows what Coccocephalus wildi might have looked like back when it lived over 300 million years ago. - Márcio L. Castro A very long time ago, a fish died, was buried in sediments and eventually became fossilized. Today, 319 million years later, it's the star of a study that reveals "the oldest example of a...

In studying the hundreds of offspring produced, which some on the internet have named sturddlefish, the researchers found that they fell into one of three main categories: those that looked mostly like their mothers, those that looked mostly like their fathers and those that inherited features of both parents. Both of the parent fish are endangered, and they would not have had any chance of reproducing in the wild—as their names suggest, the paddlefish live in the U.S. and the sturgeon live in Russia. They are both considered to be "living fossils" by scientists because they have not changed very...