it is now limited to Chaves County in New Mexico and Culberson and Reeves counties in Texas. USFWS says the biggest threat to the Pecos pupfish is the sheepshead minnow, a non-native fish ...

The small freshwater fish lives in the Pecos River Basin of New Mexico and Texas. Conservationists petitioned in 2007 for protection for the Pecos pupfish. But it took a 2020 lawsuit for the Service ...

Jan. 1—In 2024, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service made several major decisions to declare New Mexico species endangered or threatened — or not. Here's a recap of some of those decisions and a look ...

The aquatic marvel in question is the Devils Hole pupfish. The species lives nowhere in the world but inside a secluded cave, the depth of which is unknown, in a section of Ash Meadows National ...

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 ...

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 ...