EditorialCaroline and Rusty McMillan, with their son, Bryce, 4, visit the Beluga whale tank at the Mystic Aquarium in Mystic, Conn., on Wednesday, May 20, 2020. (Christopher Capozziello/The New York Times)
EditorialBeluga sturgeon, Huso huso, and fishing methods with hook and line. Handcolored copperplate engraving from Gottlieb Tobias Wilhelm's Encyclopedia of Natural History: Fish, Augsburg, 1804. Wilhelm (1758-1811) was a Bavarian clergyman and naturalist know...