#devil's hole

[gwydionmisha]

A tiny desert fish hits a 25 year population high in one of Earth’s harshest environments

In a glimmer of hope for one of the world’s rarest fish, scientists have counted 191 Devils Hole pupfish this spring in their tiny desert ha

This is so exciting!

[sovaghoul]

20-foot statue of Satan in Devil's Hole, St. Mary, Jersey

I'll be in my bunk

[preheville]

The gateway into Devil's Hole, Death Valley National Park. Photo by Kim Stringfellow.

[howstrangethemusicsoundstome]

Caitlin Doughty on the Devil’s Hole and pupfish

[streetviewhub]

ONLY THE RAREST FISH is found in the Devil's Hole named Pupfish #fact #devilshole See 360° View Devils Hole is a geologic formation located within the Ash Meadows National Wildlife Refuge, in Nye County, Nevada, in the Southwestern United States. Devils Hole, a detached unit of Death Valley National Park, is habitat for the only naturally occurring population of the endangered Devils Hole pupfish. [Wikipedia]

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[oenothera5]

Lava cone, Devil's Hole, Arizona.

1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph, albumen.

Title    Lava cone, Devil's Hole, Arizona. Contributor Names    Bell, William, 1830-1910, photographer Created / Published    [United States], 1872.

Format Headings    Albumen prints--1870-1880.    Stereographs--1870-1880. Notes    -  Original negative number: 109.    -  Title from item.    -  Part of series: U.S. War Dept., Corps of Engineers; Geographical Explorations and Surveys West of 100th Meridian, Expedition of 1872; Lieut. Geo. M. Wheeler, commanding.    -  Part of: Geological Series. Medium    1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph, albumen. Call Number/Physical Location    LOT 3427-2, no. 86 [item] [P&P] Repository    Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA Digital Id    stereo 1s00269 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/stereo.1s00269 Library of Congress Control Number    2005694471 Reproduction Number    LC-DIG-stereo-1s00269 (digital file from original photo, front) Rights Advisory    No known restrictions on publication. Online Format    image Description    1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph, albumen. LCCN Permalink    https://lccn.loc.gov/2005694471

[rjzimmerman]

Nevada's critically endangered fish are in an unseasonable spawn after the earthquake set their home rippling

Critically endangered desert pupfish spawning in 2012. (Sharon Keeney)

Excerpt:

Nevada’s endangered desert pupfish are spawning after Alaska’s earthquake sent waves reverberating around their watery home.

Earlier this week, Alaska’s magnitude 7.9 earthquake triggered a small tsunami. Waves only three to eight inches tall washed in along shores from British Columbia through California. But the shaking also rippled across the continent, setting off waves in Devil’s Hole, an 18-foot-long pool that branches deep into the Nevada aquifer. The sloshing water was reflected in the pool, building into waves—also known as a sieche—over a foot tall, Abby Wines writes in a statement for Death Valley National Park. The seiche didn’t cause any damage, but it did disrupt the pool’s most famous inhabitant, the desert pupfish, causing the creatures to unseasonably spawn.

Desert pupfish usually spawn during the spring and the fall but any disruption of their environment can spark another spawning event, biologist Ambre Chaudoin tells Wines. The males turn a brilliant blue when they spawn, while the females are a subdued grey to silvery blue.

Desert pupfish are critically endangered and live only in Devil’s Hole. Though this limestone cavern dives over 400 feet deep below the Mojave Desert, the inch-long fish live in just the upper 80 feet of the pool. The fish eat algae that grows in a shallow sunlit shelf at the top of the hole, and spawn on a tiny shallow shelf.

Researchers were lucky to have had a video camera running when an earthquake in Mexico in 2012 caused the same “seiche” effect in Devil’s Hole: