Fifty years ago last week, President Richard Nixon signed the Endangered Species Act of ... which was known to live only in a single place: the Little Tennessee River. The Tennessee Valley ...

All three species are known to live in the Tennessee River basin, while the Cumberland moccasinshell and Tennessee clubshell can also found in the Cumberland River basin. There are 65 known ...

In this 1979 photograph, Jim Williams speaks during a protest against the damming of the Little Tennessee River, home or the Snail Darter, in Tenn. The fish was at the center of a battle between ...

A two-inch minnow that became the center of a major Supreme Court battle in the late 1970s has turned out to be, with respect ...

A new study by Yale researchers shows that the tiny fish, discovered in a lower stretch of the Little Tennessee River in 1973, is not a distinct species at all, meaning it was never endangered. The ...

He was initially victorious in protecting the fish: In 1978, the Supreme Court ruled that “the Endangered Species Act prohibits impoundment of the Little Tennessee River by the Tellico Dam ...

Forty-six crayfish collected in the Ocoee River Gorge in southern Tennessee ... little crayfish that was rather unusual in its size,” he said. Initially, he thought it was another local species ...

Nearly 50 years after the snail darter temporarily blocked the construction of a dam in Tennessee, researchers at Yale University found that the endangered species technically is not a species at all.