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🇺🇸 United StatesPallid sturgeon An endangered North American sturgeon species native to the Missouri and Mississippi river basins.Ancient · Rivers and lakes · 1905

🇺🇸 United States and 1 moreGreen sturgeon A large anadromous fish native to the northern Pacific Ocean.Shark · Coasts and shelves

🇬🇧 United Kingdom and 4 moreLeedsichthys Extinct Jurassic giant filter-feeding fish, the largest known bony fish.Ancient · Open ocean · 1889

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The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.

Pallid sturgeon: USFWS Fish and Aquatic Conservation, Public domain, source
Green sturgeon: Muséum d'histoire Naturelle, Public domain, source
Leedsichthys: Dmitry Bogdanov, CC BY 3.0, source

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