This Tiny Fish’s Mistaken Identity Halted a Dam’s Construction
Scientists say the snail darter, whose endangered species status delayed the building of a dam in Tennessee in the 1970s, is ...
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A Tiny, ‘Endangered’ Fish Delayed a Dam’s Construction in the 1970s. Now, Scientists Say the Snail Darter Isn’t So Rare After All
A lawsuit to protect the snail darter from the Tellico Dam in Tennessee offered the first real test of the 1973 Endangered ...
'Zombie snails' have been spotted at California lake. Here's what you need to know
They eventually leave that snail, find a fish, dig underneath the fish's skin and make a cyst," said Hechinger. This is when the parasite becomes dangerous to humans. If someone were to eat an ...
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Two species in and around Arkansas up for Endangered Species Act protections
In the spring, as monarch butterflies fly north, they make a stop-off in the Natural State. Perched on milkweed, they breed and lay their eggs. Within 30 days, those pollinators will go from egg to ...
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What is a food chain?
Algae is eaten by small fish, small fish are eaten by bigger ... The animals they eat are called prey. Snails eat leaves and hedgehogs eat snails. So, the hedgehog is the predator.