The DEEPEST hole, the CUTEST fish.
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This video was greatly informed by the book "Relicts of a Beautiful Sea: Survival, Extinction, and Conservation in a Desert World" by Christopher Norment. Thank you, Mr. Norment, for your passionate and exhaustive research as well as your insightful storytelling.
***SELECTED SOURCES/ADDITIONAL READING***
Relicts of a Beautiful Sea: Survival, Extinction, and Conservation in a Desert World
Norment, Christopher J. The University of North Carolina Press. Chapel Hill, 2014.
"Devils Hole divers fight to save rare desert fish in Death Valley National Park"
https://www.desertsun.com/story/news/environment/2016/10/20/devils-hole-fight-extinction-fish-death-valley-national-park/90807286/
"The Last Dive Into Devil’s Hole."
http://thescuttlefish.com/2015/10/the-last-dive-into-devils-hole/
"Divining Devils Hole: Part 2"
https://mojaveproject.org/dispatches-item/divining-devils-hole-part-2/
"Rare Fish Hold Up Nevada Desert Resort"
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1983/01/06/rare-fish-hold-up-nevada-desert-resort/518a30e3-3c3d-43cf-828d-1c09406950c9/
"RECOVERY PLAN FOR THE ENDANGERED AND THREATENED SPECIES OF ASH MEADOWS, NEVADA "
https://www.fws.gov/nevada/protected_species/fish/documents/ws_pupfish/RP_ashmeadows.pdf
"Ash Meadows NWR Fish Conservation Facility"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZtTWRgbrfY
"The Phenotypic Plasticity of Death Valley's Pupfish"
https://www.americanscientist.org/article/the-phenotypic-plasticity-of-death-valleys-pupfish
"DEATH VALLEY FISH DECLARED EXTINCT"
https://www.nytimes.com/1981/11/19/us/death-valley-fish-declared-extinct.html
"A little fish that’s mighty as a mountain"
https://www.hcn.org/issues/53.1/latest-endangered-species-a-little-fish-thats-mighty-as-a-mountain