Pupfish, Downfish: Subterranean Tsunami Gives Vertical Shakes to the Water-Hole Home

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On March 20 a National Park Service biologist named Jeffrey Goldstein and I descended a rocky incline into the mouth of Devils Hole, a collapsed cave in the Nevada desert 40 miles south of the visitor’s center in Death Valley. Thirty feet down, an arm of water extends out from a deep pool to cover a rock shelf the size of a Ping-Pong table with up to two and a half feet of hot water. This shallow recess is home to 100 much-studied adult Devils Hole pupfish, or Cyprinodon diabolis . Living nowhere else on the planet, the pupfish receive protection from human harm by force of federal law and padlocked gates.
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