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.

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 ...

Zygmunt Plater argued – and won – the first case under the Endangered Species Act to go before the U.S. Supreme Court. The story of the tiny snail darter is still important, he writes.

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 ...

The snail darter was downlisted from endangered to threatened in 1984 due to successful relocations and the discovery of new populations. It can now be found in Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi and ...

The snail darter - a little three-inch fish that nearly swallowed TVA's Tellico Dam and became the poster child for the Endangered Species Act - has officially been saved from extinction and ...

Sep. 4—The snail darter — a little three-inch fish that nearly swallowed TVA's Tellico Dam and became the poster child for the Endangered Species Act — has officially been saved from ...

NASHVILLE — The snail darter, a tiny Southeastern fish that initially derailed a federal dam during an epic battle over Endangered Species Act protection in the 1970s, is no longer considered ...

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 TVA v.