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

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

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

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 ...

The relatively sequestered Devils Hole — a swimming hole in a portion of Ash Meadows Wildlife Refuge that is considered Death ...

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.

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 ...