Smithsonian Magazine23d
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 ...
Newsweek24d
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.
Reason27d
"There Is, Technically, No Snail Darter," But the Snail Darter Still Delayed the Tellico Dam
The dam was only completed after Congress expressly exempted it from the ESA's dictates. "There is, technically, no snail darter," said Thomas Near, curator of ichthyology at the Yale Peabody Museum.
The New York Times28d
This Tiny Fish’s Mistaken Identity Halted a Dam’s Construction
The dam began operating in 1979 ... successfully for the fish in the Supreme Court case, took issue with the Yale study. He said the approach favored by Dr. Near and colleagues makes them genetic ...
Yale Environment 36028d
Fish at center of key conservation fight not a distinct species after all
The dam was completed shortly thereafter ... Wood, Oliver D. Orr, and Daemin Kim of Yale; Jeffrey W. Simmons of Signal Mountain, Tennessee; Tsunemi Yamashita of Arkansas Tech University; Matthew R.
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A Tiny, 'Endangered' Fish Delayed a Dam's Construction in the 1970s. Now, Scientists Say the Snail Darter Isn't So Rare After All
They sought a way to halt the dam, and, in 1973 ... law for decades to come,” according to a statement from Yale. But lawmakers like Baker were still eager to see the dam completed and derided ...