A critically endangered species of fish that lives in a very bizarre place is coming back from the brink of extinction. The National Park Service (NPS) announced that the Devil's Hole pupfish has ...

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 fake Devil’s Hole contained the same 92-degree water and spawning shelf. There, in captivity, a backup colony of pupfish was bred. Nineteen of those captive fish were carefully brought into ...

Down the Devil’s Hole. Season 7 Episode 10 | 26m 46s Video has Closed Captions | CC. Discover Ash Meadows’ crystal springs, rare pupfish, and vital conservation efforts in the Mojave.

Biologists added 19 captive fish to the wild population, and used data from the captive Devil’s Hole pupfish population in Ash Meadows to help decide how to supplement the fish’s diet until ...

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 ...

The Devils Hole pupfish isn’t just notable from a biological perspective, it was also at the center of a debate over water use and conservation in the late 1960s and 1970s.

A National Park Service (NPS) photo shows a Devils Hole pupfish. Over 250 of the extremely rare fish were discovered in the Devils Hole cavern in Nevada in September, 2022; a 19-year high.

Before the mid-1990s, scientists counted roughly 200 to 250 Devils Hole pupfish every spring. Over roughly 20 years, the population dropped to an average of around 90 fish.

The world's only population of wild Devils Hole pupfish shrank to 38 members after two earthquakes greatly affected the animals, which live in Death Valley National Park. However, biologists are ...