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 ...

Red seaweed:It's taking over the Gulf of Maine and that’s bad news for cunner fish With no teeth, sturgeon aren’t any good at chomping down prey so they are bottom feeders. Their four barbels ...

An enormous fish lurks in the deep waters of Lake Shasta and looks like it came out of a 1960s sci-fi film. The creature has a platypus-like face with a long nose and armored scales.

PRINCETON (WLUK) -- It's a celebration for a prehistoric fish, and it's underway in western Green Lake County. "The sturgeon spawn is Princeton's most-ancient tradition. Sturgeon have been coming ...

Experts think the fish is one of the largest lake sturgeon ever recorded in the US, and based on the creature’s girth and size, they said it is assumed to be female and more than 100 years old.

The lake sturgeon is the oldest and largest native fish species in North America’s Great Lakes. Lake sturgeons can grow huge. It’s not unusual to find one six feet long and 200 pounds.

“A remarkably ugly fish,” “remarkably cool,” “really amazing,” “basically dinosaurs” and “sort of like zombies” — these were the terms that environmental historian Nancy Langston used to describe the ...

One fish truly has a unique place in history, particularly because it has managed to exist on earth in some form since prehistoric times. We are referring to the sturgeon, a family of bony fish ...

Fossils indicate that the lake sturgeon has existed for more than 136 million years, according to scientists. It's spade-nosed fish with a bottom-mounted vacuum hose instead of jaws.