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  • Paddlefish are not closely related to sharks, but they do share some common characteristics including a skeleton primarily composed of cartilage, and a deeply forked, abbreviate heterocercal tail fin (the top fin lobe is slightly larger than the lower fin lobe).

    Archive 2007-01-01 2007

  • Paddlefish are one of the oldest fish according to fossil records, pre-dating the dinosaurs.

    Archive 2007-01-01 2007

  • Seriously, at times I feel somewhere down my in the depths of my ancestary, someone procreated with a Paddlefish.

    We will, we will BLOG YOU (uh) blog you (uh)… | Her Bad Mother 2006

  • The editors of Mount Marty College's literary journal Paddlefish are interested in poetry (3-5 poems), short/short fiction (2,500 words or less), graphic fiction, nonfiction, illustrated essays, graphic memoir and narrative documentary photography in all genres and styles.

    Submissions :: Paddlefish 2.29.08 Denise 2007

  • Paddlefish eggs have lately been cropping up at high-end venues.

    Like a Sturgeon 2007

  • Paddlefish roe goes by many vernacular names, among them spoonfish and chataluga.

    Like a Sturgeon 2007

  • Paddlefish (Polyodon spathula) routinely grow 5 feet long and exceed 60 pounds.

    Like a Sturgeon 2007

  • Seriously, at times I feel somewhere down my in the depths of my ancestary, someone procreated with a Paddlefish.

    We will, we will BLOG YOU (uh) blog you (uh)... 2006

  • Seriously, at times I feel somewhere down my in the depths of my ancestary, someone procreated with a Paddlefish.

    Archive 2006-07-23 2006

  • Paddlefish are also finicky about spawning conditions, reabsorbing their eggs if flow is too low and cold and waiting up to three years to spawn again, Mr. O'Bara said.

    NYT > Home Page By DEBORAH WEISBERG 2011

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