University of California-Berkeley: Endangered Devils Hole Pupfish Is One Of The Most Inbred Animals Known
November 05, 2022
November 05, 2022
BERKELEY, California, Nov. 5 (TNSjou) -- The University of California Berkeley campus issued the following news release on Nov. 4, 2022:
As its name implies, the Devil's Hole pupfish lives in a truly hellish environment.
Confined to a single deep limestone cave in Nevada's Mojave Desert, 263 of them live in water that hovers around 93 degrees Fahrenheit year-round, with food resources so scarce that they are always on the edge of starvation, and with oxygen l . . .
As its name implies, the Devil's Hole pupfish lives in a truly hellish environment.
Confined to a single deep limestone cave in Nevada's Mojave Desert, 263 of them live in water that hovers around 93 degrees Fahrenheit year-round, with food resources so scarce that they are always on the edge of starvation, and with oxygen l . . .