These organs, called barbels, help the fish to locate bottom-dwelling prey, such as snails, mussels, clams, crayfish, insect larvae, and fish eggs. Also known as the rock sturgeon, the lake ...

Beluga sturgeon ... Russian immigrant who imported beluga into the US right before the government banned all imports of beluga products, in 2005. Due to the overwhelming demand for beluga, the ...

We're fishing for Scaphirhynchus albus, the pallid sturgeon ... barbels; a knobby back; and bony protrusions called scutes, rather than scales, lining the gray skin of its body. The fish, which ...

A prehistoric fish species that once swam alongside the dinosaurs might still be clinging to life in a muddy stretch of river ...