One fish, two fish. Spawned fish, new fish.

While Dr. Seuss was trying to excite children about reading using rhymes and also teaching them colors, his famed 1960 bestselling book “One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish” could now be updated with a scientific focus.

This summer in the Missouri River below Fort Peck Dam fisheries biologists confirmed two pallid sturgeon females spawned. Days later downstream, researchers captured what may be the baby pallids, called larvae.

Genetic testing must be completed to ensure the tiny specimens were indeed offspring of a species that dates back to the age of the dinosaurs and is now listed as endangered.

Spawned near Wolf Point

The first fish spawned between June 30 and July 31, close to the Wolf Point area of the Missouri River, according to Pat

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