A Prehistoric Alligator Gar remains found on Banks of MacRitchie Reservoir

A Prehistoric Alligator Gar remains found on Banks of MacRitchie Reservoir

The leftover carcass of the monstrous discovery

If you stroll along the nature reserve, you might often come across spotting some occasional wild creature where one visitor spotted something different as Karen Lythgoe come across a prehistoric looking creatures’ carcass on 14 February where the creature’s carcass appear to have washed ashore to the banks of MacRitchie Reservoir.

On her photo, it showed that the dead animal reveals a row of small and sharp teeth with some thick alike alligator skin. However, with further understanding the creature is not an alligator but instead is an alligator gar. Which it is an invasive species and not native to Singapore where it could be kept as pet and subsequently released due to their voracious appetite and ability to grew to great lengths. As these alligator gars can grew up to 3m in length and a 1.5m alligator gar was caught in Pasir Ris canal in 2011 by two recreational fisherman.

While, if an alligator gar is pretty prehistoric because it belongs to a lineage that dates back to dinosaur time or around 157 million years ago and alligator gars are also referred to living fossil where they have some remarkably similar to their ancestor with little to no changes.