Sporting an armor of five rows of bony, modified scales called dermal scutes and a shark-like tail fin, this group of several-hundred-pound beasts has survived for approximately 160 million years.

Having obtained information on the archaeology of the Chesapeake region from our collaborator Leslie Reeder-Myers, we sampled remains of sturgeon—their scutes and spines—at a precolonial-era ...

Having obtained information on the archaeology of the Chesapeake region from our collaborator Leslie Reeder-Myers, we sampled remains of sturgeon – their scutes and spines – at a precolonial ...

Archaeologists uncover bony scutes – modified scales that resemble armor for the living fish – in places where people relied on sturgeon for subsistence. Logan Kistler and Natalia Przelomska ...

Sporting an armor of five rows of bony, modified scales called dermal scutes and a sharklike tail fin, this group of several-hundred-pound beasts has survived for approximately 160 million years.

the only sturgeon species found in the Great Lakes. They have five rows of bony plates called scutes on their backs and sides, as well as whisker-like barbels near their mouths. More: Michigan ...

Lake sturgeon have no scales but are covered by rows of bony scutes. Their preferred habitats are large shallow lakes, rivers and near-shore areas, where they feed using their protruding mouths to ...