A massive alligator gar was recently caught in Texas, earning attention from wildlife officials and anglers alike. The ...

The Mississippi River floodplains are home to one of Earth’s most impressive river monsters: the alligator gar. Known to science as Atractosteus spatula, it is the largest of the gar species alive ...

The air was thick and sticky when I first laid eyes on the monster’s lair — one of the countless lakes created by flood runoff as the Trinity River winds its way across eastern Texas. As I stood on ...