A total of 60,000 artificially propagated acipenser sinensis, or Chinese sturgeons, have been born in a research institution in Central China's Hubei province, according to the institution on Saturday, Oct. 25, 2014. The fish were second-generation sturgeons hatched from 150,000 fertilized eggs from the first-generation fish which were artificially-bred from the wild ones. It was the first time that a first-generation fish had spawned consecutively, according to the institution. [Photo/China News Service/Xu Ren]