Endangered minnow rallies conservationists in race to save laurel dace

Monday, July 21, 2025 - 11:52 in Biology & Nature

A few streams on the Cumberland Plateau northeast of Chattanooga are the only places where a small freshwater fish called the laurel dace lives in the wild, so when drought struck the Southeast last summer, the species faced the real possibility of extinction.

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