New Study Suggests some Lake Sturgeon Could Live More than 400 Years in the Great Lakes

Some Great Lakes fish could be upward of 400 years old, new study finds

Previous research had put the ‘living dinosaur’ fish’s life expectancy at 150 years

New study suggests some Lake Sturgeon could live more than 400 years in the Great Lakes

Imagine a single fish swimming in the Great Lakes today that was alive 400 years ago.That's around the time of the Pilgrims, even earlier than Michigan's first

A New Longest-Living Fish? Sturgeon Could Top 400 Years – Far Longer Than Scientists Believed, But Something Indigenous Communities Had Long Understood

Some sturgeon alive today were swimming around when the Declaration of Independence was signed in 1776.

Researchers put new potential on how old lake sturgeon could get

The lake sturgeon is an ancient and long-lived species that can get very old. But how old?