Chad Helmer released the albino sturgeon that measured 11 feet, 2 inches and weighed an estimated 1,000 pounds. Biologists have never seen anything like it. A Canadian fisherman landed a rare and ...

Now scientists are racing to save these living fossils. The white sturgeon is the largest freshwater fish in North America; it can grow upwards of 15 feet. Here, in Idaho’s Snake River ...

But the longevity of the sturgeon in the Kootenai River is waning: It hasn't reproduced in real numbers in at least 30 years due to habitat change caused by Libby Dam, which shut its gates in 1975.