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a living fossil so old it watched dinosaurs come and go, then kept swimming.
means A large, bony-plated freshwater and coastal fish prized for its roe, which is processed into caviar.
from From Old French 'esturgeon,' itself borrowed from a Germanic source — compare Old High German 'sturio.' The deeper root is uncertain, though it's possibly related to words meaning 'to stir,' perhaps for the way the fish churns up river-bottom mud as it feeds. The same Germanic ancestor surfaces across Europe, leaving cousins like German 'Stör' and the Sturgeon's various northern names.
- age
- Species predate dinosaurs by 50 million years
- lifespan
- Can live over 100 years
- size
- Beluga sturgeon reach 7 meters long
- caviar
- Their eggs are pricier than gold by weight
- jump
- Gulf sturgeon leap and have killed boaters
beluga sturgeon caspian sea — world's largest freshwater fish, can reach 20 feet and live 100+ years in the caspian sea
fraser river white sturgeon — north america's largest freshwater fish, 12-foot specimens caught in british columbia since the 1900s
russian caviar trade — beluga sturgeon eggs worth $3,500+ per kilogram, driving overfishing in russia and iran since the 1990s