As hardy as it is, the desert pupfish must struggle to stay alive against the impacts of livestock grazing, water diversions, and competition from nonnative species. The Center first championed the ...

With about 130 remaining on Earth, the Devils Hole pupfish is the world's rarest fish. Scientists believe the fish has lived in relative isolation just outside of Nevada's Death Valley for about ...

DESCRIPTION: The desert pupfish is a small, silver-colored fish with dark vertical bars on its sides. It has a short, compressed head, an upturned mouth, a thick, chubby body, and rounded fins. Males ...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has announced plans to list the Pecos pupfish as a threatened species. Pupfish are less than two inches long and their colors vary from gray, brown, to ...

At just a few months old, the fish are still very small, measuring no more than a centimetre long. Boxer pupfish, Cyprinodon simus, are one of seven pupfish species native to Lake Chichancanab in ...

“Then you have these fish that are popping out of little hiding spots between the rocks.” The pupfish truly are puppylike, Goldstein said, squabbling with one another and chasing other fish aroun ...

The boxer pupfish are believed to be extinct in the wild Eggs from a rare Mexican fish species believed to be extinct in the wild have successfully hatched at Bristol Zoological Society.