Smithsonian Magazine18d
A Tiny, ‘Endangered’ Fish Delayed a Dam’s Construction in the 1970s. Now, Scientists Say the Snail Darter Isn’t So Rare After All
A lawsuit to protect the snail darter from the Tellico Dam in Tennessee offered the first real test of the 1973 Endangered ...
Hosted on MSN10d
An 'Endangered' Fish That Delayed a Dam's Construction for 6 Years Was Never Actually in Danger, Find Scientists
An 'Endangered' Fish That Delayed a Dam's Construction for 6 Years Was Never Actually in Danger, Find Scientists The river ...
The New York Times24d
This Tiny Fish’s Mistaken Identity Halted a Dam’s Construction
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 ...
Reason22d
"There Is, Technically, No Snail Darter," But the Snail Darter Still Delayed the Tellico Dam
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 ...
Opinion
This odd fish halted construction of a massive dam in 1973. Turns out, it isn’t real | Opinion
The problem with the snail darter was raised long ago in the dissent to the Supreme Court ruling protecting it. Justice William Rehnquist, in an aside, noted that scientists had a really hard time ...
Newsweek19d
The Endangered Fish That Halted a Major Dam Was Never Endangered After All
Nearly 50 years after the snail darter temporarily blocked the construction of a dam in Tennessee, researchers at Yale University found that the endangered species technically is not a species at all.
The Fresno Bee20d
This odd fish halted construction of a massive dam in 1973. Turns out, it isn’t real | Opinion
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 ...