and fish eggs. Also known as the rock sturgeon, the lake sturgeon is one of 27 species of sturgeon, a family of bony fish that found around the world that first appears in the fossil record more ...

Sturgeon are among the oldest fish on Earth, yet many present-day sturgeon ... Sporting an armor of five rows of bony, modified scales called dermal scutes and a sharklike tail fin, this group ...

We're fishing for Scaphirhynchus albus, the pallid sturgeon. They call it the "Dinosaur ... and bony protrusions called scutes, rather than scales, lining the gray skin of its body.

Since the time of the dinosaurs, about 70 million years ago, sturgeons have remained essentially unchanged — large, impressive fish that can live to be 100. But the longevity of the sturgeon in the ...

WEST ALTON, Mo. — A fish that once thrived for 150 million years was driven to the "brink of extinction." It's undergoing a slow, but sure, comeback. "Lake sturgeon were declared endangered in ...

and since most of these massive white sturgeon are caught and released, official world records cannot be verified since you must weigh the fish on a certified scale, requiring the fish be killed.