In romance, timing is everything. The same is true, it seems, for fish. For the past several weeks, researchers have waited anxiously for the moment when two mature female pallid sturgeon leave the ...

The bottom fish is the federally endangered pallid sturgeon; the top is the more common shovelnose sturgeon. The color of the pallid is a whitish gray, and the "nose" is more elongated. The Iowa ...

NEOSHO, Mo. -- An annual effort to help save the endangered pallid sturgeon brought biologists from across the state to Neosho, where they tagged 3,300 of the fish to prepare them for release into the ...

Two federally endangered fish were found in the Des Moines River earlier this spring. The Iowa Department of Natural Resources recently announced that two pallid sturgeons were found this spring as ...

IOWA, USA — The Iowa Department of Natural Resources has documented the federally endangered pallid sturgeon in the Des Moines River for the first time. Biologists collected two of the rare fish this ...

Pallid sturgeons, which can reach six feet long and live 60 years, flourished for eons in murky American waters. NEBRASKAland Magazine / Nebraska Game and Parks Commission It's cold. Here on the North ...

Bob Hector of Billings, a member of the Yellowstone River Conservation District Council, releases a pallid sturgeon into the Yellowstone River on Wednesday at the conclusion of a day-long tour.

ST. LOUIS | The discovery of two lab-confirmed tiny pallid sturgeons in the Missouri River near St. Louis offers fresh proof the endangered species descending from the dinosaur era is reproducing, the ...

Congressman Troy Downing (MT-02) and Senator Steve Daines (R-MT) introduced the “Lower Yellowstone River Native Fish Conservation Act”. The bill reaffirms that the Bureau of Reclamation (BOR) retains ...

It made a dull thump against the aluminum hull as Conservation Technician Jeremy Pasbrig grabbed its spiny tail and lifted it from the waters of Lake Sharpe on a Tuesday morning in 2017. The same ...