WASHINGTON— In January 2025 a paper published in Current Biology (Ghezelayagh et al. 2025) explained that genetic analysis demonstrated that snail darters (Percina tanasi) represented a population of ...

A tiny fish that averages only 2.5 inches in length derailed political careers, delayed construction of a massive dam and reservoir, caused a U.S. Supreme Court landmark case and prompted legislation ...

This one weird little fish — a beigeish critter found on sandy river bottoms in Tennessee and fond of munching on snails and water bugs — just upset 50 years of environmental efforts aimed at ...

“There is, technically, no snail darter,” Thomas Near, curator of ichthyology at the Yale Peabody Museum and a professor at that university’s fish biology lab, told The New York Times. Opponents of ...

The controversy involved the delay of the construction of the Tellico Dam on the Little Tennessee River in 1973. A University of Tennessee biologist discovered the endangered snail darter, a small ...

Surprisingly, the snail darter is not extinct. You might wonder why this is an issue, let alone what it has to do with polar bears, butterflies and, good grief, President Barack Obama and pipeline ...