The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is considering adding the eastern hellbender salamander to its list of endangered species protected under the Endangered Species Act. The proposal to do so was ...

The Barrens darter has been reduced to just a few small ... central Tennessee habitat,” Townsend said. “Endangered Species Act protections are necessary to ensure we don’t lose more of the Southeast’s ...

This is a strange sort of ark: a brick warehouse in Knoxville, Tennessee ... species and subspecies of U.S. freshwater fish. Like most freshwater fish, those of the Southeast tend to be small ...

Freshwater pearls are still cultured by inserting small pieces of native mussel ... and motivate actions to save the surviving species. Check out our 230-foot mural of the endangered mussels of the ...

The large freshwater salamanders have ... was considered to be in North Carolina and Tennessee, the area devastated by Helene. The Endangered Species Act prohibits the “take” of species ...

Could the eastern hellbender salamander become the newest endangered species in Tennessee? It's possible ... The proposal to do so was announced in December 2024. The large freshwater salamanders have ...