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🇺🇸 United States and 1 moreLake sturgeon A large, long-lived freshwater fish native to North America.Ancient · Rivers and lakes

🇦🇴 Angola and 3 moreMarbled lungfish African lungfish with the largest known animal genome, found in East and Central Africa.Ancient · Rivers and lakes

🇮🇹 Italy and 4 moreAdriatic sturgeon A critically endangered sturgeon native to the Adriatic basin.Ancient · Rivers and lakes

Photo credits on this page

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

Lake sturgeon: USFWS Mountain-Prairie, Public domain, source
Marbled lungfish: George Berninger Jr., CC BY-SA 4.0, source
Adriatic sturgeon: Fernando Losada Rodríguez, CC BY-SA 4.0, source

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