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is a uniquely beautiful fish; this stripey is one of the most common living in our lakes and rivers and can grow up to 8 - 9 pounds in weight. Perch usually gather in large when hunting for food.

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2019-01-07

Highlights from the
Rubeosaurus, Orodus, Samotherium and Gargantuavis.

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2019-01-06

For here's a throwback of Lunaspis, the Devonian placoderm whose name appropriately means 🌙🛡️ (weird to remember the entire 1st half of 2018 for me was drawing the Paleozoic with colored pencils in a sketchbook)

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2018-12-30

I’m getting in on First character: this lovely European Flounder. One of my favorite fishes!

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2018-12-23

For I give you the much loved Gourami. A fan favorite of many an aquarist. These guys are native to Asia.

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2018-12-24

Day 16 and a A watercolour painting of the world's largest bony fish, the ocean sunfish (Mola mola), pictured here with some brown sea nettle jellies, one of its preferred foods!

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2018-12-17

Shortnose Gar for today's These guys are some of my favorite freshwater fish!

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2018-12-16

3 sarcopterygian fish from the Silurian. From the top: Guiyu oneiros, Megamastax, and Psarolepis. 2/3 of these were pretty big predators of the Silurian seas, with Guiyu reaching about 13in while Megamastax is estimated at around 1m (3.28ft)

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2018-12-02

You won't find members of the family Holocentridae - AKA the squirrelfishes - burying acorns, but rather prowling the reef after dark for benthic inverts/small fish.

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2018-11-26

I decided to a originally discovered in the 1850s here in Kansas. This giant marine predator is from the Cretaceous, and we have a beautiful fossil here at the Institute.

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2018-11-19

Directly from Congo Basin, my Polypterus of the day is the banded bichir. They have a swimming bladder that functions like a "lung". This adaptation says a lot about their environment, and the wet and dry seasonal regimes of the Congo forest.#sundayfishsketch

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2018-11-05

Pristolepis fasciata / Sepatung / Malayan Leaffish

Lives in swamps and forest rivers in Mekong, Chao Phraya, Java, Borneo, and Sumatra.

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2018-11-04

Highlights from the Don't forget the release stream on Wednesday! We have here Harapagornis, Acanthorhina, Spinops and Hamipterus.

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2018-10-29

Had a really long day today, and I wish I had more time to work on this... Anyway, here are my three Opah fish! Thank you all for participating and following every week. You are all what make this hashtag great!

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2018-10-22

featuring amazon fishes. Growing up in the Amazon was definitely a bless. Here are some of my favorite fishes: tucunaré, Cichla spp., the most iconic fish from my hometown Tucuruí; the pirarucu, Arapaima gigas; and stingrays, Paratrygon aiereba.

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2018-10-01

After mucking it up and starting over from scratch, here is Lachnolaimus maximus, the hogfish, for my contribution to this week's And, of course, I had help as usual.

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2018-09-24

Apparently this didn't post yesterday.

- I saw my first horseshoe crab snorkeling today in South Florida! 😍

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2018-09-03

Today's is a throughback to the magical time snorkeling in Indonesia after IMBeR summer school. I did swim with unicorns under rainbows.

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2018-09-03

A bit late to the party, but this attempt at a ribbon eel is my first

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2018-08-28