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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