Such is the Way to the Stars

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🗓️ 21 November 2018

⏱️ 81 minutes

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0:00.0	The
0:14.2	Atlantic Sturgeon, scientific name,
0:17.7	acupuncture, oxorincus, it's one big fish,
0:21.4	a prehistoric wonder.
0:24.3	Its ancestors swam in the waters of Pangaea
0:27.6	a few years ago.
0:30.0	An asteroid killed the dinosaurs,
0:32.5	but not the Atlantic Sturgeon.
0:34.8	They kept on swimming.
0:38.4	Sturgeons are bottom feeders, probing for small prey
0:42.3	with barbells that look like moustaches.
0:45.4	It's a bony fish, covered not in scales,
0:48.3	but in rigid plates known as scoots.
0:50.9	Imagine an ankylosaur or a turtle for that matter.
0:54.8	And they live a long time.
0:57.4	If we let them.
0:59.1	50 to 60 years is normal.
1:01.4	100 is not unusual, which means Atlantic Sturgeons
1:05.3	grow to enormous sizes.
1:07.8	300 pounds is common, but they've
1:10.3	been caught weighing up to 800 pounds.
1:14.6	Occasionally, they propel their enormous bodies out
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