A common sight during the Cretaceous 100 million years ago in North Africa. These two genus of fish haven’t overlapped and interacted in the wild since the continents broke apart. Garlic my platinum alligator gar eating one of his tank mates a Polypterus delhezi. After being together for months Garlic decided he was big enough to attempt to eat him. I did intervene to try and save the poly and make sure Garlic didn’t injure himself unfortunately the poly didn’t survive. I don’t like sharing clips like this but it is very cool to observe fish being fish. #alligatorgar #polypterusdelhezi #atractosteusspatula #atractosteus #gar #longnosegar #lepisosteus #platinumalligatorgar #fishtanks #aquariums #nativefishtank #primitivefish #ancientfish #ancientfish #fossilfish #polypterusornatipinnis