These two species collided in the news for seemingly different reasons—the darter starred in a new paper arguing it is actually not a distinct species, and the smelt was unlucky enough to become the subject of a tenuously coherent response from Donald Trump to a question about the L.A. wildfires.
The fish tells a story about the process of science and conservation, and how blameless species become scapegoats for quagmires of our own making.
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