American shad are green or greenish-blue with metallic tones on the back. Silvery sides line a compressed body. The upper jaw has a smaller or larger median notch and the lower jaw does not ...

ATEN-POUND bite requires a forty-pound contraction of the human jaw muscles. That is because the jaws are built on the principle of a pair of tongs, The power is applied near the joint ...

Over the past four decades, the American shad population in Virginia — specifically the James River — collapsed. Humans are largely to blame. Dams, pollution, commercial fishing bycatch ...