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 primitive family of fish.

There is only one living species of bowfin, which is also called the dogfish, mudfish, or grindle. This uniquely American freshwater fish is found in the Mississippi River basin, the Great Lakes ...

Snakeheads look similar to the bowfin fish with a single dorsal ... the pet trade or food industry. Once a popular freshwater aquarium fish, snakeheads may have been dumped into local waterways ...

"This fish is one of Missouri’s newest invasive species threats," said Angela Sokolowski, an MDC invasive species ecologist. "They look like native bowfin fish, so it’s important to properly ...