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 ...

It was originally discovered in 1957 in Abrams Creek, a Little Tennessee River tributary in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. For a long time, the species was believed to be extinct until ...

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 ...

He was initially victorious in protecting the fish: In 1978, the Supreme Court ruled that “the Endangered Species Act ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.