在地球的众多神秘生物中,魔鳉无疑是最为独特的存在之一。它们生活在美国内华达州死亡谷的一个狭小水潭中,这里是世界上最炎热干旱的地方之一,几乎是生命的禁区,但魔鳉却在这里创造了生命的奇迹。
Devils Hole is, one of the worst places to be a fish.
It has lethally low dissolved oxygen, critically high temperatures.
Nearly any fish that goes into it, would die.
These pupfish are always at the edge, with such a small population, in such a limited area.
This fish is found nowhere else in the wild or in nature.
With under 40 pupfish left in the wild, they're possibly the rarest fish on the planet.
But how did they end up in such an inhospitable place?
And what makes their survival so important?
People will ask, "Should this fish exist in such an extreme environment?" And honestly, I have to ask myself, "Yeah, I mean, how and why?" Is it a pupfish miracle?
Devil's Hole is part of Death Valley National Park.
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