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 ...

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 ...

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.

The snail darter is not a thing. It was just a common perch, say scientists. USFWS This one weird little fish — a beigeish critter found on sandy river bottoms in Tennessee and fond of munching ...

In the late-1970s, a small freshwater fish known as the snail darter made history when its newly acquired status as an endangered species helped to temporarily block construction of the Tellico Dam in ...

The snail darter is not a thing. It was just a common perch, say scientists. USFWS This one weird little fish — a beigeish critter found on sandy river bottoms in Tennessee and fond of munching ...

The famous snail darter — immortalized in its own 1978 Supreme Court case that brought construction of a billion-dollar dam to a halt — turns out not to exist, say fish experts in a new peer ...

For such a tiny fish, the snail darter has haunted Tennessee. It was the endangered species that swam its way to the Supreme Court in a vitriolic battle during the 1970s that temporarily blocked ...

The snail darter is not a thing. It was just a common perch, say scientists. USFWS This one weird little fish — a beigeish critter found on sandy river bottoms in Tennessee and fond of munching ...