“I was always into the more unusual-looking organisms,” he remembers. But David wasn’t always interested in prehistoric fishes it was dinosaurs that initially gripped his interest. His enthusiasm for primitive fishes - living representatives of ancient lineages that were around hundreds of millions of years ago - is infectious. Multiple gars from Mexico are mounted on the walls there, gar is a regional delicacy known locally as pejelagarto - a portmanteau of the Spanish words for “fish” and “lizard.” Next to a whiteboard hangs a framed spread depicting a gar swimming in a river, from the children’s magazine Ranger Rick.ĭavid sits in middle of this ad-hoc gar display, a lively researcher in his early 40s whose hands move almost as fast as his mouth. who makes scientifically accurate paleo plushies, sits behind David’s computer chair. A small stuffed animal gar, custom made from a woman in the U.K. The prehistoric fish that adorns the walls looks like an alligator that has fins instead of feet, a long, narrow snout and armored, diamond-shaped scales. It’s like walking into a gar museum - perhaps the only such in the world. Sharp teeth and pointy snouts plaster the walls and bookshelves of Solomon David’s office at Nicholls State University, nested among the bayous of southern Louisiana.
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