The bottom fish is the federally endangered pallid sturgeon; the top is the more common shovelnose sturgeon. The color of the pallid is a whitish gray, and the "nose" is more elongated. The Iowa ...

It’s said beauty is in the eye of the beholder. To some, a long-snouted, murky white, boneless bottom feeder native to the Missouri and Mississippi rivers – known as the pallid sturgeon – might not ...

How to identify a pallid sturgeon: See the key features of the endangered fish See the distinct characteristics of the pallid sturgeon. Learn how to spot this endangered fish by examining its snout, ...

Pallid sturgeon may be on the edge of extinction without the efforts of the population assessment program, said Kirk Steffensen, a fisheries biologist with Nebraska Game and Parks. Steffensen leads ...

Two federally endangered fish were found in the Des Moines River earlier this spring. The Iowa Department of Natural Resources recently announced that two pallid sturgeons were found this spring as ...