Guatemala Just Gave Its 'Fossil Fish' a Fighting Chance

Guatemalan conservationists released hundreds of baby tropical gar — a torpedo-shaped fish with an alligator snout that hasn't changed in 100 million years — into a mangrove-fringed lagoon in southern Guatemala. Raised in tanks at Guatemala City's La Aurora Zoo, these are the first of their kind ever bred in captivity, a lifeline for a species weakened by illegal fishing and pollution.