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Chinese sturgeon spawns debate over endangered species’ ‘sexual decline’
Is the biggest, rarest fish in the Yangtze River losing the ability to breed?
The jury is still out, with two studies on the possible degeneration of sexual organs in Chinese sturgeon - a freshwater predator that can grow as big as a shark - spawning an unusually acrimonious debate.
On one side is a team from the Ministry of Water Resources; on the other, a group of researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
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