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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Though small, the snail darter has played an outsize role in American law, conservation and biology. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Headquarters via Flickr Senator Howard Baker of Tennessee ...

The two-inch snail darter became a symbol for regulatory overreach in the 1970s. New research suggests the fish was not an endangered species — or even a species.

The famous snail darter — immortalized in its own 1978 Supreme Court case that brought construction of a billion-dollar dam to a halt — turns out not to exist, say fish experts in a new peer ...