For anglers, the refuge provides a very unique landscape and the chance to move through the swamp's wild country in search of distinctive fish, like the long-nose gar and the air-breathing bowfin.

Large, ancient, air-breathing fishes also thrive in ponds. Bowfin, identifiable by their ... of the high water temperatures that accelerate fish metabolism. The most interesting inhabitants ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Fish often avoid intense stimuli, but scientists and animal welfare groups have long debated whether fish can feel pain. So is there an answer? Animal rights organization PETA claims on its ...