Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NICEVILLE — A major victory was declared Tuesday in the long upstream battle of the Okaloosa darter, as the little fish native ...

Though small, the snail darter has played an outsize role in American law, conservation and biology. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Headquarters via Flickr Senator Howard Baker of Tennessee described ...

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 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 ...

EGLIN AIR FORCE BASE — In 1973, President Richard Nixon signed into law the Endangered Species Act of 1973. This law ensures that animal and plant species are protected under federal law, and that the ...