Manitoba Conservation's Northeast Region branch office on the second floor of the Provincial Building here in Thompson just brought in a tank full of new young sturgeon - acipenser fulvescns -- last week for their always-popular sturgeon aquarium by the front door. Sturgeons have been around since the age of the dinosaurs. The oldest sturgeon fossils in North America were found in Alberta and they are estimated to be over 60 million years old. The oldest lake sturgeon fossil (the sturgeon species found in Manitoba) is estimated to be about two million years old.
