in 2002, this giant sturgeon washed up on the banks of the tampa bay river in florida. this 127 pound fish is no mythical creature, but biologists believe that sturgeons are rare in the gulf of mexico, and they have long been threatened with extinction. yet, this 40-year old, pregnant female was living upstream in a freshwater river in florida, lending credence to the theories that many lake monsters were trapped when rivers dried up, cutting them off from the ocean.
