LOS ANGELES— The Center for Biological Diversity petitioned today to protect the Santa Ana speckled dace, a small minnow native to Southern California streams, under the Endangered Species Act.

Last July, a prolonged regional drought caused many Southeast Tennessee streams to dwindle and, in some cases, dry up ...

The Santa Ana speckled dace is a small minnow species that lives in the Santa Ana, San Jacinto, San Gabriel and Los Angeles river systems. Speckled dace have been eliminated from three-quarters of ...

There was a time when the laurel dace, a type of freshwater minnow, inhabited eight streams ... "It is for sure one of the top five most endangered species east of the Mississippi – for fishes ...

More than 230 critically endangered Laurel Dace have been returned to their natural habitat in Southeast Tennessee after ...

Among other prey species identified were blueback herring, gizzard shad, northern hog sucker, shorthead redhorse, goldfish, river chub, bluntnose minnow, longnose dace, white catfish, brown ...

with the most affected species being the minnows, shiners, dace and chubs at 707,871. Ongoing investigations are being conducted to determine the impact of the fertilizer release on other aquatic ...