Over 3,000 Chinese Sturgeons Released into YangtzeMore than 3,000 Chinese sturgeons were released at the mouth of the Yangtze River in Shanghai Wednesday.This is the first time that Shanghai, a leading industrial and commercial city in the country, has put such a large number of young Chinese sturgeons, each measuring about 40 cm in length and weighing 400 grams, into the river. Scientists attached markers to the tails of more than 600 sturgeons to follow their growth. The Chinese sturgeon is one of the oldest vertebrates in the world, surviving for more than 150 million years, and it is called a "living fossil." The species is now under state first-class protection. |
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