The reign of dinosaurs ended 65 MYA, IN THE SPRING.
How do we know WHICH SEASON it was when the Chicxulub asteroid hit the Earth?
Because the PADDLEFISH bore witness. Let's talk about it.
Paddlefish are among the most ancient lineages on Earth, with fossil evidence from 125 MYA.
How do we know WHICH SEASON it was when the Chicxulub asteroid hit the Earth?
Because the PADDLEFISH bore witness. Let's talk about it.
Paddlefish are among the most ancient lineages on Earth, with fossil evidence from 125 MYA.
Paddlefish or Basking Shark Filter Feeding
Alt: A Paddlefish, a skinny looking grey fish with a just enormous mouth underneath a rostrum or paddle nose. It swims in a short loop, collecting and filtering a huge amount of freshwater.
static.klipy.com
June 3, 2026 at 12:55 PM
The reign of dinosaurs ended 65 MYA, IN THE SPRING.
How do we know WHICH SEASON it was when the Chicxulub asteroid hit the Earth?
Because the PADDLEFISH bore witness. Let's talk about it.
Paddlefish are among the most ancient lineages on Earth, with fossil evidence from 125 MYA.
How do we know WHICH SEASON it was when the Chicxulub asteroid hit the Earth?
Because the PADDLEFISH bore witness. Let's talk about it.
Paddlefish are among the most ancient lineages on Earth, with fossil evidence from 125 MYA.
Well now I’m bummed out about the Chinese Paddlefish
The Chinese Paddlefish, Which Lived for 200 Million Years, Is Now Extinct
New research concludes the freshwater species likely disappeared between 2005 and 2010 due to human activity
www.smithsonianmag.com
May 2, 2026 at 1:32 PM
Well now I’m bummed out about the Chinese Paddlefish
An old-ish drawing of a Chinese Paddlefish for today's #SundayFishSketch 🐡
May 18, 2025 at 12:37 PM
An old-ish drawing of a Chinese Paddlefish for today's #SundayFishSketch 🐡
I’m screaming too, Paddlefish, I’m screaming too.
ALT: Paddlefish feed by swimming with their large mouths agape, using a paddle-like rostrum to detect plankton. The plankton is filtered out of water using gill structures. They appear to be screaming.
Music: Immigrant Song by Led Zeppelin.
ALT: Paddlefish feed by swimming with their large mouths agape, using a paddle-like rostrum to detect plankton. The plankton is filtered out of water using gill structures. They appear to be screaming.
Music: Immigrant Song by Led Zeppelin.
March 14, 2025 at 1:31 PM
I’m screaming too, Paddlefish, I’m screaming too.
ALT: Paddlefish feed by swimming with their large mouths agape, using a paddle-like rostrum to detect plankton. The plankton is filtered out of water using gill structures. They appear to be screaming.
Music: Immigrant Song by Led Zeppelin.
ALT: Paddlefish feed by swimming with their large mouths agape, using a paddle-like rostrum to detect plankton. The plankton is filtered out of water using gill structures. They appear to be screaming.
Music: Immigrant Song by Led Zeppelin.
The National Museum of Natural History’s new exhibition “From These Lands” features an American Paddlefish (Polyodon spathula) the last surviving species of an ancient lineage of fishes that predates dinosaurs.
Meet the Spatula-Nosed Fish Whose Anatomy Has Hardly Changed Since the Cretaceous
The National Museum of Natural History’s new exhibition “From These Lands” features an American paddlefish, the last surviving species of an ancient lineage of fishes that predates dinosaurs
www.smithsonianmag.com
September 23, 2026 at 8:40 PM
The National Museum of Natural History’s new exhibition “From These Lands” features an American Paddlefish (Polyodon spathula) the last surviving species of an ancient lineage of fishes that predates dinosaurs.
Here’s a Paddlefish youngster, probably about a year old (caught & released during @garlab.bsky.social fieldwork).
Their bodies are primarily cartilage; coupled with their filter-feeding they’re basically freshwater Basking Sharks!
Their bodies are primarily cartilage; coupled with their filter-feeding they’re basically freshwater Basking Sharks!
March 14, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Here’s a Paddlefish youngster, probably about a year old (caught & released during @garlab.bsky.social fieldwork).
Their bodies are primarily cartilage; coupled with their filter-feeding they’re basically freshwater Basking Sharks!
Their bodies are primarily cartilage; coupled with their filter-feeding they’re basically freshwater Basking Sharks!
Day 6 - Paddlefish
A species of freshwater mermaid, Paddlefish mermaids are found in large river systems. Paddlefish mermaids are a vulnerable species because they used to be hunted for their meat and caviar.
#mermay2025
A species of freshwater mermaid, Paddlefish mermaids are found in large river systems. Paddlefish mermaids are a vulnerable species because they used to be hunted for their meat and caviar.
#mermay2025
May 6, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Day 6 - Paddlefish
A species of freshwater mermaid, Paddlefish mermaids are found in large river systems. Paddlefish mermaids are a vulnerable species because they used to be hunted for their meat and caviar.
#mermay2025
A species of freshwater mermaid, Paddlefish mermaids are found in large river systems. Paddlefish mermaids are a vulnerable species because they used to be hunted for their meat and caviar.
#mermay2025
This fish survived 22 years after being tagged. Its lineage survived the rise and fall of the dinosaurs. Today, after the extinction of the Chinese paddlefish, the American paddlefish is the last surviving member of its ancient family.
Montana fisherman reels in elusive paddlefish after 22 years of evasion
A paddlefish originally caught in 2004 has finally been caught once again. A Montana fisherman reeled in the massive 117-pound fish.
apple.news
August 19, 2026 at 11:30 AM
This fish survived 22 years after being tagged. Its lineage survived the rise and fall of the dinosaurs. Today, after the extinction of the Chinese paddlefish, the American paddlefish is the last surviving member of its ancient family.
An old illustration of a Paddlefish for today's #SundayFishSketch in honor of the MN AFS 2025 meeting next week. I will have a table there. If anyone is going, feel free to stop by and say hi!
February 9, 2025 at 6:12 PM
An old illustration of a Paddlefish for today's #SundayFishSketch in honor of the MN AFS 2025 meeting next week. I will have a table there. If anyone is going, feel free to stop by and say hi!
Sturgeon & paddlefish are such mythical looking creatures. Like no way there actually are monsters in those murky depths?!
The giant white sturgeon of the Fraser River in Canada
July 31, 2026 at 3:09 AM
Sturgeon & paddlefish are such mythical looking creatures. Like no way there actually are monsters in those murky depths?!
Apparently it’s National American Paddlefish Day (really!)
So here’s the only one I’ve ever encountered in the wild! Caught (and released during #GarLab fieldwork on a Mississippi River floodplain in 2020)🐟🧪👍
So here’s the only one I’ve ever encountered in the wild! Caught (and released during #GarLab fieldwork on a Mississippi River floodplain in 2020)🐟🧪👍
March 10, 2024 at 2:20 AM
Apparently it’s National American Paddlefish Day (really!)
So here’s the only one I’ve ever encountered in the wild! Caught (and released during #GarLab fieldwork on a Mississippi River floodplain in 2020)🐟🧪👍
So here’s the only one I’ve ever encountered in the wild! Caught (and released during #GarLab fieldwork on a Mississippi River floodplain in 2020)🐟🧪👍
Wild story from Disney Springs: Someone robbed the Paddlefish riverboat restaurant by *swimming up to it in scuba gear after midnight*.
insidethemagic.net/2025/09/2000...
insidethemagic.net/2025/09/2000...
UPDATE: $20,000 Stolen From Disney World by Man in Full Scuba Suit, Swims Away
A thief in scuba gear reportedly swam to Disney Springs' Paddlefish restaurant, tied up employees, and stole up to $20,000. Here's the latest update on the bizarre late-night heist.
insidethemagic.net
September 16, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Wild story from Disney Springs: Someone robbed the Paddlefish riverboat restaurant by *swimming up to it in scuba gear after midnight*.
insidethemagic.net/2025/09/2000...
insidethemagic.net/2025/09/2000...
I don't go fishing, but I would love to see an American Paddlefish for today's #SundayFishSketch
#SciArt
#SciArt
April 13, 2025 at 2:06 PM
I don't go fishing, but I would love to see an American Paddlefish for today's #SundayFishSketch
#SciArt
#SciArt
Hi everyone! It's my first time posting here. Anyway, I drew an American Paddlefish for today's #SundayFishSketch.
November 5, 2023 at 4:17 PM
Hi everyone! It's my first time posting here. Anyway, I drew an American Paddlefish for today's #SundayFishSketch.
Just like clockwork. It's paddlefish season again.
April 1, 2026 at 7:44 PM
Just like clockwork. It's paddlefish season again.
#Februarty #FishyFeb #school
A somewhat disorganized school of yellow something-fish swimming under a couple of paddlefish. Maybe two schools, each with a paddlefish? Do paddlefish have minions?
#paddlefish #mysteryfish
A somewhat disorganized school of yellow something-fish swimming under a couple of paddlefish. Maybe two schools, each with a paddlefish? Do paddlefish have minions?
#paddlefish #mysteryfish
February 27, 2025 at 9:07 AM
#Februarty #FishyFeb #school
A somewhat disorganized school of yellow something-fish swimming under a couple of paddlefish. Maybe two schools, each with a paddlefish? Do paddlefish have minions?
#paddlefish #mysteryfish
A somewhat disorganized school of yellow something-fish swimming under a couple of paddlefish. Maybe two schools, each with a paddlefish? Do paddlefish have minions?
#paddlefish #mysteryfish
big s/o to the tennessee aquarium and their paddlefish tank. lighting was v inspiring
June 12, 2026 at 1:49 AM
big s/o to the tennessee aquarium and their paddlefish tank. lighting was v inspiring
As a complete sidenote here. I have a bone to pick with these two fish.
Paddlefish irl are not caught with live bait, they just swim around with their mouths open and grab whatever comes by. To catch them, you use an IRL technique called *snagging*
#FFXIV Paddlefish DO NOT REQUIRE SNAGGING. >:(
Paddlefish irl are not caught with live bait, they just swim around with their mouths open and grab whatever comes by. To catch them, you use an IRL technique called *snagging*
#FFXIV Paddlefish DO NOT REQUIRE SNAGGING. >:(
The fish in the #FFXIV patch is almost certainly Ttokatoa, a Big Fish caught in Lake Toari.
It can not be Turali Paddlefish, as it would be displayed in a T3 tank, because it's a large fish. This is a T4 tank - making it Ttokatoa, an extra large fish.
(It's also a freshwater tank)
It can not be Turali Paddlefish, as it would be displayed in a T3 tank, because it's a large fish. This is a T4 tank - making it Ttokatoa, an extra large fish.
(It's also a freshwater tank)
August 1, 2025 at 1:33 PM
As a complete sidenote here. I have a bone to pick with these two fish.
Paddlefish irl are not caught with live bait, they just swim around with their mouths open and grab whatever comes by. To catch them, you use an IRL technique called *snagging*
#FFXIV Paddlefish DO NOT REQUIRE SNAGGING. >:(
Paddlefish irl are not caught with live bait, they just swim around with their mouths open and grab whatever comes by. To catch them, you use an IRL technique called *snagging*
#FFXIV Paddlefish DO NOT REQUIRE SNAGGING. >:(
Aerial photo of Paddlefish in Disney Springs.
January 18, 2026 at 4:09 PM
Aerial photo of Paddlefish in Disney Springs.
For Day 2 of #25DaysOfFishmas, we've got an iconic oddball, native to the Mississippi River Basin. This is the American Paddlefish, Polyodon spathula, the only living member of the family Polyodontidae.
December 2, 2025 at 11:48 AM
For Day 2 of #25DaysOfFishmas, we've got an iconic oddball, native to the Mississippi River Basin. This is the American Paddlefish, Polyodon spathula, the only living member of the family Polyodontidae.
March 9, 2026 at 3:39 PM
I had wanted to try and finish this for today's #SundayFishSketch, but alas, that did not happen. So here is a work in progress of some Chinese Paddlefish 🐡
March 29, 2026 at 3:02 PM
I had wanted to try and finish this for today's #SundayFishSketch, but alas, that did not happen. So here is a work in progress of some Chinese Paddlefish 🐡