Has Evolution Ground to a Stop in Living Fossil Gars?

A recent news item caught my eye. It states that ���a biological mechanism can explain [gar���s] status as ���living fossils.������ Now, the term ���living fossil��� applies to a creature that, from an evolutionary perspective, supposedly appears in the fossil record millions of years ago yet the same creature is still found living today. Gar fish (which we also have in the large aquarium in the Main Hall at the Creation Museum) are considered to be ���living fossils.���

So what was this biologi...