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 ...

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

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

Scientists say the snail darter, whose endangered species status delayed the building of a dam in Tennessee in the 1970s, is ...

In the 1970s, the discovery of the Tennessee snail darter in the Tellico River was used to halt completion of the Tellico Dam under the Endangered Species Act (a tale many law students learn in ...

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

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.

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