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A school of Death Valley pupfish, seen in Salt Creek in 2019. This species is known from only two locations in Death Valley: Salt Creek (subspecies salinus) at about 49 m (161 ft) below sea level, and Cottonball Marsh (subspecies milleri), at about 80 m (260 ft) below sea level. [1]
After a 1952 presidential proclamation declared Devils Hole a part of Death Valley National Monument, renamed Death Valley National Park in 1994, the pupfish was listed as an endangered species in ...
A Devils Hole pupfish photographed in its only habitat in Death Valley in 2017. ... In 1967, pupfish were labeled an endangered species, one of the first in the United States. Before the mid-1990s ...
Death Valley is the fifth-largest American national park and the largest in the contiguous United States. It is also larger than the states of Rhode Island and Delaware combined, and nearly as large as Puerto Rico. [10] In 2013, Death Valley National Park was designated as a dark sky park by the International Dark-Sky Association. [11]
The Death Valley pupfish live at the lowest elevations in Death Valley, where summer temperatures can reach 130 °F (54 °C). [ 2 ] The Devil's Hole pupfish is found only in a single spring-fed limestone cavern in Ash Meadows , California, and at 23 square yards (19 m 2 ) has the smallest known range of any vertebrate species.
The pool in Devils Hole, home to the endangered pupfish, saw waves erupt up to 4 feet high after a 7.6-magnitude earthquake hit near Mexico on Monday. Mexico earthquake triggers 'desert tsunami ...
The Point of Rocks Springs in the Ash Meadows National Wildlife Refuge is home to the Amargosa River Pupfish. Ash Meadows is within the Amargosa Desert, of the Mojave Desert ecoregion. The Amargosa River is a visible part of the valley hydrology, and has seasonal surface flow passing southwards adjacent to the preserve, to later enter Death Valley.
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