Sturgeon are ancient fish that have been around for 201 million years, giving them the title of “modern fossils” quite easily. They usually live in freshwater, but some species feed in brackish ...

Lake sturgeon were found in relative abundance in Lake Michigan and nearshore waters of Milwaukee when European immigrants settled the area. However, the fish were extirpated over much of their ...

The Princeton Public Library is celebrating the sturgeon's less than good looks with an "ugly sturgeon contest" April 20, 2023. (WLUK) Skalitzky says celebrating sturgeon might come with a catch.

Allen Sklar, who found the three-foot-long large fish on a beach in Virginia, was baffled by the creature, which appeared to have armour plating, external teeth, and a multicoloured exterior ...

Want to catch a freshwater fish over 100 pounds? Learn where, when, and how to catch lake sturgeon in Wisconsin, Minnesota & Michigan.

These fish are a small number of the roughly 40,000 adult sturgeons in the Lake Winnebago system. Wisconsin’s statewide lake sturgeon population is one of the healthiest on the planet.

The large fish had lived in waters thick with rival fish, including giants several times its size. It had hooked teeth at the tip of its long jaw ... or actinopterygians (including everything from ...

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

Researchers confirmed sightings of shortnose sturgeon fish in the Connecticut River by using eDNA after launching a survey following reports of community sightings.

The Wisconsin DNR is working to rehabilitate the lake sturgeon population into a self-sustaining future in the Milwaukee River.

Teeth first evolved as sensory organs, not for chewing, according to a new analysis of animal fossils. The first tooth-like structures seem to have been sensitive nodules on the skin of early fish ...

Using sturgeon embryos grown at the Research Institute of Fish Culture and Hydrobiology in the Czech Republic, Stundl and his team used fluorescent dye to track how the fish's trunk neural crest ...