An endangered fish found only in northern Clark County is now being protected by a military-grade safety net. A reserve population of Moapa dace has been established at a hatchery near Lake Mead, ...

MOAPA -- Today marks the 30th anniversary of the Moapa Valley National Wildlife Refuge, but don't expect confetti or cake. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has no plans to mark the occasion, and for ...

On September 13, 2019, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) posted a final rule removing the Foskett speckled dace (Rhinichthys osculus ssp.) from the federal List of Endangered and Threatened ...

LOS ANGELES— The Center for Biological Diversity sued the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today for failing to protect two populations of imperiled speckled dace under the Endangered Species Act. The ...

Last month, the Santa Cruz River, which travels through the heart of Tucson, gained 600 new residents. Our newest neighbors are the longfin dace, a species of small fish that lived in the Santa Cruz ...

A member of the Cyprinidae family and the sole species in the genus Moapa, the Moapa dace lives only in the warm springs of the upper Muddy River and has a distinctive leathery appearance — hence the ...

LAS VEGAS — The latest count is in for Clark County's most endangered fish, and the results are mixed. While researchers were relieved to see the Moapa dace population holding steady at 1,138 adult ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. A tiny fish native to Southern California ...

In the cool, clear waters flowing down Walden Ridge, a fish no bigger than your pinky holds a story of survival, science, and community spirit. The laurel dace, a brightly colored minnow found nowhere ...