A combination of water resources and dedicated people have succeeded in helping lake sturgeon thrive while they have failed ...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service made an initial finding in 2019 that listing the lake sturgeon as threatened or endangered may be warranted. But the agency missed a May 2019 deadline for ...

Currently, the Atlantic sturgeon lives only off the coasts and in rivers of North America. Due to its distinctive back and ancient origin, it is colloquially known as the ancient dragon.

An ancient fish, the shortnose sturgeon, was found to be living in an area where it hasn't been spotted in decades. Scientists this summer discovered traces of the fish — which has been around ...

It’s prehistoric. At a large enough size, it’s not hard to imagine people now or in the past considering the fish a bona fide ...

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 ...

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 ...

He said special protection is needed for the 141-kilometre segment of river where the fragile hickorynut and ancient sturgeon are working together to filter silt and bacteria from the water like a ...