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 found that the snail darter, which was famously used by environmentalists ...

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

Scientists say the snail darter, whose endangered species status delayed the building of a dam in Tennessee in the 1970s, is a genetic match of a different fish. By Jason Nark For such a tiny fish ...

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

Two species of tiny, drab, and otherwise forgettable fish—the blotchy brown snail darter and the pale, silvery delta ...

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 ...