By Rhett Ayers Butler A powerful 8.8 magnitude earthquake that struck near Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula on July 29 sent ...

Seismic waves from an earthquake in eastern Russia hit Death Valley, shaking up a critically endangered desert fish ...

Magnitude Russian Earthquake Causes Minor Disturbance to the Pupfish in Devils Hole in Death Valley National Park ...

A Death Valley National Park cavern filled with rare and endangered fish rattled when an 8.8-magnitude earthquake hit off ...

The 8.8 earthquake Russia triggered waves nearly 4,000 miles away in Death Valley National Park, according to the National ...

SHOSHONE, Calif. — How the Devil’s Hole pupfish has survived for centuries in a spa-like cistern cloistered by a barren rock mountain in Death Valley National Park remains a biological mystery.

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?

Devils Hole is protected by barbed wire, a security system and solar-powered, 24-hour video surveillance. A dedicated team of scientists feeds the pupfish five times per week.

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.

The alarmingly rare Devils Hole pupfish — known from only one pool in a Nevada desert —might not be the long-isolated species it has seemed. The small, bluish Cyprinodon diabolis fish inhabits ...