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Science of Survival: A Very Scary Fish Story

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The Struggle to Save the Alabama Sturgeon

The Alabama sturgeon was listed as an endangered species in the 1990s. The fish has no teeth but a series of concentric pink circles that looks like a filter feeder. A biologist from the University of West Florida took 30 water samples from the Alabama River looking for environmental DNA or EDNA of the AlabamaSturgeon. When Janisik tested the water sample she collected she found EDNA, which tells us it's not something that's ancient Then there recently Steve believes this he trusts science over rumors and old men's opinions So we drive slowly around dropping trot lines of 60 baited hooks in 10 different spots We're only out on the water for four hours, but with

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