Sturgeon are ancient fish that have been around for 201 million years, giving them the title of “modern fossils” quite easily ...

Ecologists celebrated the release of thousands of palm-sized lake sturgeon into the Maumee River in 2018, kicking off an ...

For 162 million years, sturgeons have fended off everything they’ve faced. Now scientists are racing to save these living fossils. The white sturgeon is the largest freshwater fish in North ...

Bones found at the site of an ancient fish-processing plant were used to genetically identify the species that went into a ...

The Connecticut River is home to an ancient denizen of the deep, the shortnose sturgeon. The fish is a kind of living fossil, perhaps one of the oldest animals. Some scientists think sturgeon date ...

An ancient fish is in danger, but research could salvage its future Our study used archaeology, history and ecology to describe the decline of Atlantic sturgeon. March 18, 2025 ...

For decades, sturgeon numbers have fallen in the Great Lakes. But in recent years, the ancient species has been coming back.

As fish stories go, this one is hard to beat. An ancient gentle giant of the seas presumed to be headed for extinction a little more than a century ago. Almost all 27 of its species to this day on ...

Mangled bones found at a one-time manufacturing facility pinpoint species used to make a quintessential condiment.