In search of a tiny fish known as the Maryland darter, scientists have donned snorkels and scuba tanks. They’ve dragged nets, even electrified ones, through ice-cold waters of the Susquehanna River ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It was unusual two decades ago for federal wildlife officials to assign a biologist full time to a military installation but ...

Phylogenetic relationships based on genomic data and the results of PCAs using morphological data for each of the sister-species pairs examined in this study. Credit: Current Biology (2025). DOI: ...

Opinion articles provide independent perspectives on key community issues, separate from our newsroom reporting. This one weird little fish — a beigeish critter found on sandy river bottoms in ...

The snail darter, a small fish native to the Southeast whose endangered status caused a legal battle in the 1970s, is no longer imperiled, the Department of the Interior announced Tuesday. The snail ...

NICEVILLE — A major victory was declared Tuesday in the long upstream battle of the Okaloosa darter, as the little fish native only to Okaloosa and Walton counties was declared no longer threatened by ...

A display at the 2022 Darter Festival in Birmingham, Ala., depicts the area's three endangered darter species. (John Brackin/Courthouse News) BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (CN) — Hundreds of Birmingham revelers ...

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 on ...