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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In this Aug. 7 2017 photo, shows a candy darter in Interior Va. The vibrant rainbow-colored fish that lives in a handful of ...

CHARLESTON, W.V.— In response to a decade of action from conservation groups, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today finalized critical habitat protection for the candy darter, a small, brightly ...

(CN) - A species of rainbow-colored fish and the streams it is found in across Virginia and West Virginia are both slated to receive federal wildlife protections by the Trump administration in ...

The pipsqueak Pearl River darter is returning to its Mississippi river system after a long absence, much to the delight of ecologists. Reading time 2 minutes The threatened Pearl River darter (Percina ...

Listener Carol Johnston called our SoundClips line to tell us about her work with fish acoustics at the fisheries department of Auburn University in Alabama. We hear recordings of minnows, darters and ...

Last week, an unassuming little silver fish found only in the Clear Lake watershed of Northern California was designated as threatened under the state’s Endangered Species Act. That likely means that ...

Q: I have a question that has plagued me for years: Is there a type of darter [fish] that lives in the streams of the Berkshires? In the town of West Cummington, there are two small branches of the ...

NEW ORLEANS— The Center for Biological Diversity filed a formal notice today of its intent to sue to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service over the agency’s failure to designate critical habitat for the ...