Credit: /iStock Solares worked with UC Cooperative Extension Specialist Jackson Gross from the Department of Animal Science ...

The lake sturgeon, with its sleek shape and rows of bony plates on its sides, looks a bit like an armored torpedo. These freshwater giants have greenish-grey coloring and elongated, spade-like ...

and there are fears that wild Chinese sturgeon may soon go extinct like their Chinese paddlefish relatives. The adults are predators that consume any aquatic animal that can be swallowed ...

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 ...

CHICAGO— A federal court has ordered the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to make a determination by 2024 whether imperiled populations of lake sturgeon will be protected under the Endangered Species ...

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