The candy darter has been on the endangered species list since 2018. The brightly colored fish lives in the watershed of the New, Gauley and Greenbrier rivers. It is usually found in fast, clear water ...

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: ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has proposed to list a fish exclusively found in Middle Tennessee to the endangered species list. The Barrens darter is about a ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn.― In response to decades of advocacy by the Center for Biological Diversity, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today proposed to protect the Barrens darter as an endangered species.

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 ...

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 ...

Two new species of fish were discovered in tributaries of the Black Warrior River System in Alabama, according to a study. Photo from Bernie Kuhajda A collection of colorful fish that are crimson, ...

Two new species of small fish were discovered in creeks outside the Birmingham metropolitan area in Alabama, according to a new study. Photo from Fouad Abou-Rizk “Brilliantly” colored fish caught in ...