RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — There are nearly 100 animal species considered endangered under the Endangered Species Act in Virginia ...

RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — There are nearly 100 animal species considered endangered under the Endangered Species Act in Virginia. As of March 31, 2023, the Virginia Department of Wildlife Resources ...

In the Clinch River, ecologist Braven Beaty holds a female Cumberlandian Combshell, a type of mussel that's endangered. Ecologist Braven Beaty stands on the bank of the Clinch River, at a section ...

Endangered Clubshell Wherever found; Except where listed as Experimental Populations (Pleurobema clava) Endangered Combshell, Cumberlandian Wherever found; Except where listed as Experimental ...

He said half of the mussel species on the list are primarily found in southeast Kentucky. “We have three species, the Cumberland Bean, Cumberlandian Combshell, and the Little Wing Pearly Mussel, so ...

Upland combshell (mussel, last confirmed sighting in the mid 1980s) — Green-blossom pearly mussel (last confirmed sighting in 1982) — Turgid-blossom pearly mussel (last confirmed sighting in ...

The removal of a species from the government’s endangered species list is often a cause for celebration, as it means a plant or animal variety has somehow beaten the odds and recovered from its ...

Two Georgia mussels -- southern acornshell and upland combshell -- both made the extinction list. They were also found in Alabama and Tennessee. According to the agency, the last time the mussels ...

upland combshell and yellow-blossom pearly mussel, NPR reported. “Our determinations of whether the best available information indicates that a species is extinct included an analysis of the ...