The two-inch snail darter became a symbol for regulatory overreach in the 1970s. New research suggests the fish was not an ...

A lawsuit to protect the snail darter from the Tellico Dam in Tennessee offered the first real test of the 1973 Endangered ...

A team of ecologists, evolutionary biologists and resource managers affiliated with several institutions across the U.S. has ...

An 'Endangered' Fish That Delayed a Dam's Construction for 6 Years Was Never Actually in Danger, Find Scientists The river ...

The snail darter is not a thing. It was just a common perch, say scientists. Fraud or bad science? From David Mastio: ...

The Supreme Court called it a “genetically” distinct species which environmental law enshrined as untouchable if the animal was in danger of dying out. But it turns out the “snail darter ...