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Posted on 20 Jan 2017 by chaddd@gmail.com and has 0 Comment




Rooting for the Underdog: Biologists Research Endangered Fishes in Lake Mead and the Grand Canyon





BIO-WEST’s study of the endangered razorback sucker (Xyrauchen texanus) started more than 20 years ago, when scientists discovered that a species expected to die out in Lake Mead was actually spawning and recruiting. High Country News contributor and free-lance journalist Ben Goldfarb joined a research crew to find why the razorback sucker is surviving and what this means for other endemic fish in the Colorado River Basin. Click here to see the story.