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Endangered Fish That Halted a Major Dam Was Never Endangered

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 Species Act. But a new study disputes the fish's status as a distinct species

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Snail darter revisited: Famous fish that halted a dam's construction is not endangered after all

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 environmentalists in the 1970s to block construction of a damn,

Newsweek · 1d

The Endangered Fish That Halted a Major Dam Was Never Endangered After All

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.

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Kansas City Star on MSN · 4h

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. Fraud or bad science? From David Mastio:

The New York Times · 6d

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.

Reason5d

"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 ...

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Fish at center of key conservation fight not a distinct species after all

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 ...

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Harve Bennett didn't want Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home to focus on whales

"Admiral, there be whales here!" Scotty's [James Doohan] famous phrase would not have worked if producer Harve Bennett had ...

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An environmental disaster is looming in SE Oklahoma because of a power project | Opinion

Plans for facilities to send electricity to Texas would harm Oklahoma's environment and threaten endangered species.

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