State Wildlife Department Celebrates Gar Week

The Oklahoma Department of Wildlife is celebrating Gar Week, as the titular fish actually has four separate species inhabiting our state.

The department's Twitter account has posted a thread containing facts, video and information on the fish as a fun learning experience for Oklahomans.

Gar have been around since the Cretaceous period, some 65 to 100 million years ago, meaning they're about as old as Tyrannosaurus rex.