![]() Weighing in at 240 pounds and measuring nearly seven feet long with a girth of about four feet, the female fish is estimated to be at least 100 years old, reports Annamarie Sysling for NPR. On April 22, during an annual survey of the lake sturgeon population in a river in Michigan, biologists reeled in a colossal catch. ![]() ![]() Lake sturgeons have a striking appearance with their shark-like tails, five rows of bony plates lining their brownish grey bodies called "scutes", and their whisker-like barbels below their rounded snout.
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