Word: pupfish
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...When the streams and lakes of what is now California's Death Valley dried up 25,000 years ago, the desert pupfish somehow endured in the few remaining hot springs and saline creeks. Even now these tiny (2½-in-long) evolutionary freaks can tolerate water six times more salty than the ocean's. They frolic in water with temperatures up to 112°; in freezing water they simply hibernate. According to Cry California magazine, the economically useless pupfish will soon test man's reverence for life. Spring Meadows Inc., a Nevada farming company, plans to start...
...FISH. Shortnose sturgeon, longjaw cisco, Piute, greenback and Montana west-slope cutthroat trout, Gila and Apache trout, the desert and Moapa dace, humpback chub, Colorado River squawfish, Cui-ui, Devils Hole, Comanche Springs and Owens River pupfish, Pahrump killifish, Gila top minnow, Maryland darter and blue pike...
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