This photo provided by University of Georgia graduate research assistant Matt Phillips, shows research technician Hunter Rider of Opelika, Ala., holding a a lake sturgeon with its vacuum-hose-like mouth extended on the Coosa River, on July 14, at Rome, Ga. The university is making the largest population study of the fish since the state began restocking them in 2002. MATT PHILLIPS via AP
Scientists and students embarking on a census of Georgia lake sturgeon have found three females with mature eggs — an indication the armored “living fossils”…