Life in Death Valley - Little Fish, Big Splash
Life in Death Valley - Little Fish, Big Splash
Nature, PBS.org
In the remote area of Death Valley National Park known as Devil’s Hole, six men suit up for a long day of desert exploration. But these explorers are swapping their dusty hiking boots and water bottles for neoprene wetsuits and oxygen tanks.
As NATURE’s Life in Death Valley reveals, the men are part of a specialized team of divers who assemble in this 40-acre pocket of Death Valley four times a year to monitor the population of the park’s most surprising desert creature: the critically endangered Devil’s Hole pupfish. Death Valley may seem an unlikely habitat for a fish, but this tiny species has managed to thrive here for thousands of years despite epic changes in its environment.
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