The spring pygmy sunfish has been teetering on the brink of extinction for the 70-plus years it's been known to science. Existing only in one spring complex in the Tennessee River watershed in Alabama ...

WASHINGTON (CN) – Five years after U.S. officials marked the spring pygmy sunfish as threatened, the absence of a critical habitat has left the tiny fish clinging to survival, environmentalists claim ...

North Alabama’s rare spring pygmy sunfish is now the $6 million fish. The Center for Biological Diversity and Mazda Toyota Manufacturing USA announced Thursday a settlement to a months-long dispute ...

Drive. “If we are going to stop this extinction crisis, we have to stop it where it is happening.” He continued to explain that extinction happens naturally at a rate of about one to five species per ...

A small, Alabama-native fish species that rarely grows longer than an inch had a big impact on the 2,400-acre site of the planned $1.6-billion plant for Toyota and Mazda. A lawsuit about the fish's ...

HUNTSVILLE, AL -- A rare, inch-long fish whose last known habitat is Limestone County's Beaverdam Creek may be in line for federal protection. Last week, the Center for Biological Diversity in ...

WASHINGTON (CN) - The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has finalized the listing for the spring pygmy sunfish as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act, and also promised that critical ...

The Center for Biological Diversity and Tennessee Riverkeeper (collectively “CBD”) entered into a Settlement and Release Agreement (“Agreement”) with Mazda Toyota Manufacturing, U.S.A. (“Mazda”) ...

The spring pygmy sunfish doesn’t know what a ruckus it’s caused over the past few years in north Alabama, but its continued existence is more likely because of the fuss. +1 ...

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