The Devils Hole pupfish's natural habitat is a single water-filled hole in a cave in the Nevada desert. Its numbers at one point dwindled to just 35 animals. How does it manage to survive?

The Devils Hole pupfish's natural habitat is a single water-filled hole in a cave in the Nevada desert. Its numbers at one point dwindled to just 35 animals. How does it manage to survive?

The highly endangered Devils Hole pupfish have previously survived seiches, most recently in 2018, 2019, and 2022, NPS said. The fish compensate by increasing spawning activity.

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The Devils Hole pupfish's natural habitat is a single water-filled hole in a cave in the Nevada desert. Its numbers at one point dwindled to just 35 animals. How does it manage to survive?

The highly endangered Devils Hole pupfish have previously survived seiches, most recently in 2018, 2019, and 2022, NPS said. The fish compensate by increasing spawning activity.

As a result, the Devils Hole pupfish are thought to have been isolated for between 10,000 and 20,000 years according to the U.S. National Park Service (NPS).

LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — A pair of recent earthquakes nearly wiped out the Devils Hole pupfish, regarded as one of the rarest fish in the world, according to biologists. The population dropped to 38 ...

One of the rarest species on Earth, the Devils Hole pupfish, came close to extinction in recent months, thanks to an earthquake 500 miles from their deep desert cave. Now, worried scientists and ...

A screengrab of a video shows waves in Devils Hole during the last “desert tsunami” in 2022. NPS photo by Ambre Chaudoin A 7.0 magnitude earthquake off California’s coast sent trembles as ...

In what Death Valley naturalists called a “surprising quirk of geology,” Monday’s magnitude 7.6 earthquake in Mexico triggered 4-foot waves in Devils Hole, a water-filled cavern in the ...