In this Aug. 7 2017 photo, shows a candy darter in Interior Va. The vibrant rainbow-colored fish that lives in a handful of Appalachian streams has been listed as "endangered" under the Endangered ...

NICEVILLE — A major victory was declared Tuesday in the long upstream battle of the Okaloosa darter, as the little fish native only to Okaloosa and Walton counties was declared no longer threatened by ...

The snail darter, a tiny fish that notoriously blocked a federal dam project in Tennessee decades ago, should no longer be on the endangered species list, federal officials announced on Tuesday.

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 candy darter has been on the endangered species list since 2018. The brightly colored fish lives in the watershed of the New, Gauley and Greenbrier rivers. It is usually found in fast, clear water ...

EGLIN AIR FORCE BASE — In 1973, President Richard Nixon signed into law the Endangered Species Act of 1973. This law ensures that animal and plant species are protected under federal law, and that the ...

Although it looks like an exotic fish from the tropics, the candy darter lives in Virginia’s cold, fast-flowing streams. Once widespread, now, only four streams in the Commonwealth and a few in West ...

BIRMINGHAM, Ala.— The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today designated just over 175 river miles, including 9,924 acres, as protected critical habitat for the threatened trispot darter in Alabama, ...

The snail darter, a small fish native to the Southeast whose endangered status caused a legal battle in the 1970s, is no longer imperiled, the Department of the Interior announced Tuesday. The snail ...

WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, W.Va. (WCHS/WVAH) — It looks like a fish you would find in the tropics, but the Candy Darter can only be found in the Appalachian Mountains. This beautiful fish still enjoys the ...