Sturgeon, America’s Forgotten Dinosaurs, Show Signs of Life

Sturgeon, America’s Forgotten Dinosaurs, Show Signs of Life
A researcher holds an endangered shortnose sturgeon caught in a net in the Saco River in Biddeford, Maine on April 25, 2019. Robert F. Bukaty/AP Photo
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CHARLES CITY, Va.—Sturgeon were America’s vanishing dinosaurs, armor-plated beasts that crowded the nation’s rivers until mankind’s craving for caviar pushed them to the edge of extinction.

More than a century later, some populations of the massive bottom-feeding fish are showing signs of recovery in the dark corners of U.S. waterways.