T he first time Frank Hubert Jr. caught the New Jersey state record bowfin, he figured he’d have to kill the beloved, air-breathing fish to prove it, so he took a nice picture and released his ...

A record bowfin was caught on a NJ creek on a warm day last month. Bowfin are living fossils as they're last survivor of a ...

In oxygen-poor water, bowfin will often gulp surface air in order ... other primitive fish, the gar has a swim bladder connected to its esophagus, which can be used for breathing.

This would be a delicate task for many fish species, but not bowfin. “They can breathe air, and the temperature was still cool. I just kept the fish at my feet in the kayak and stopped regularly to ...

Also, known as mudfish, the bowfin has the ability to breathe both air and water. It is a formidable predator that readily feeds on frogs, fish and other vertebrate prey and insects. Hubert said ...