Some Great Lakes sturgeon may be 400 years old. Scientists are rethinking how to save them

New research suggests Great Lake sturgeon may live more than 400 years — far longer than previously thought. The discovery is forcing scientists to rethink the already-generations-long effort to bring the giant fish back from the brink of extinction.

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