This article was written by Jan Jeffrey Hoover. No other fish in the Mississippi River is like the Paddlefish. It is a living ...

The Chinese paddlefish belongs to an ancient lineage of paddlefish that has been around for at least 100 million years. But in early 2020, a study concluded that the species has recently gone ...

One of the oldest species in the river, Paddlefish are known for their long, flat snouts. These filter feeders use their snouts, or rostrums, to detect plankton in the water. Paddlefish have ...