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That means the Alligator Gar and Longnose Gar—two distinct gar ... “Our paper shows that living fossils aren’t simply strange accidents of history but provide a fundamental demonstration ...

Such scales were also present in the earliest ray-finned fish and are different from those of other living fish, except gar. Like many of the other living fossil fish, the bichir is especially ...

These genes were expressed in the gar’s skin, where its scales produce an enamel-like substance called ganoine ... The researchers observed incremental lines and crystals in the scales and skull of a ...