One of 17 sturgeon species belonging to the Acipenser genus ... They’ve lived in China’s Yangtze River for perhaps 140 million years, and this relic of the dinosaur era is sometimes dubbed ...

Collection manager Justin Mann cradles an Atlantic sturgeon, Acipenser oxyrinchus ... on a bend in the Mississippi River, down a dirt track named Wild Boar Road. Alligators and water moccasins ...