gar
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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
The alligator gar caught in eastern China last week weighed roughly 11 pounds.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 25, 2022
He also said voters had responded positively to his party's plans to cut VAT using the proceeds from a windfall tax on the profits of oil and gar companies.
From BBC ● May 6, 2022
Even though modern bony fishes are much more diverse today, a previous study found that in the past they were not as numerous or varied as holosteans—the prehistoric relatives of today’s gar and paddlefish.
From Scientific American ● Mar. 23, 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
"God, Doctor," replied the vile Whig, "he garred kings ken they had a lith in their necks."
From Goldsmith English Men of Letters Series by Black, William
I says, giein' him a shak' that garred him turn up the white o' his een.
From My Man Sandy by Salmond, J. B.
And while the din was at its height in the cot, there came a sound to Mistress Comline's ear that garred her kind heart loup within her.
From Deep Moat Grange by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)
Now Skipper frien', come tell me true What garred ye mount the ribbon blue?
From A Golfing Idyll or The Skipper's Round with the Deil On the Links of St. Andrews by Flint, Violet
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 Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)
The deil's in you, Monkbarns, for garring odds and evens meet.
From The Antiquary — Volume 02 by Scott, Walter, Sir
