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 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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...