The Arkansas River Shiner was formerly common in the Arkansas River but is reliant on flood flows and has fared poorly with reduced streamflow. The spotted cave salamander, like the gray bat ...

Joel Sartore, a National Geographic Explorer and photographer, will add the leopard darter and Arkansas River shiner fish at the Zoo to his expansive National Geographic Photo Ark project.

A project is underway to help one of the Niagara River and Lake Erie’s most important fish thrive despite decades of manmade impacts to the ecosystem. The effort is being undertaken by the U.S. Army ...

They’re found only in the upper James River watershed in western Virginia, where they’re being displaced by invasive fish. The shiner was first identified as threatened 50 years ago and was put on a ...

The emerald shiner is a small, but critical prey fish at the base of the food web in the Niagara River and Lake Erie. It is often overlooked due to its size and seeming abundance, but the fish’s ...