Lake Sturgeon

Fish > Sturgeons

The Lake Sturgeon (Acipenser fulvescens) is the colossal, ancient monarch of North America’s Great Lakes. Surviving virtually unchanged since the age of the dinosaurs over 150 million years ago, this armored giant is the largest and longest-lived freshwater fish...

Polka Dot Stingray

Fish > Stingrays

The Polka Dot Stingray (Potamotrygon leopoldi), also celebrated as the Xingu River Ray or Black Diamond Ray, is an aristocratic, world-famous freshwater batoid endemic exclusively to the rocky shallows of Brazil’s Xingu River basin. Revered for its breathtaking...

Turquoise Killifish

Fish > Killifishes

The Turquoise Killifish (Nothobranchius furzeri) holds an extraordinary biological world record: it is the shortest-lived vertebrate animal known to science. Native to temporary mud pools in the scorching bushveld of Mozambique that evaporate completely within weeks...

South American Lungfish

Fish > Lobe-finned Fishes

The South American Lungfish (Lepidosiren paradoxa), locally known in South America as the Piramboia, is a living fossil that represents one of vertebrate evolution’s most remarkable bridges between fish and terrestrial four-legged animals. Endemic to the...

Bocaccio Rockfish

Fish > Scorpionfishes

The Bocaccio Rockfish (Sebastes paucispinis), affectionately dubbed ‘Bocaccio’ from the Italian word for ‘big mouth,’ is a commercially historic and ecologically prominent scorpaenid native to the cold, nutrient-rich currents of the Northeast...