Death Valley pupfish
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The Death Valley pupfish, also known as Salt Creek pupfish, is a small species of fish in the family Cyprinodontidae found only in Death Valley National Park, California, United States. There are two
Salt Creek pupfish
The spring-fed pools of upper Salt Creek are the year-round habitat of pupfish
A school of Death Valley pupfish, seen in Salt Creek in 2019
Lake Manly
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Lake Manly was a pluvial lake in Death Valley, California. It forms occasionally in Badwater Basin after heavy rainfall, but at its maximum extent during the so-called "Blackwelder stand," ending appr
Death Valley pupfish
…subspecies milleri), at about 80 m (260 ft) below sea level. They are thought to be the remainders of a large ecosystem of fish species that lived in Lake Manly, which dried up at the end of the last ice age leaving the present-day Death Valley. The Salt Creek subspecies is also found at River Springs and Soda…
Lake Manly occasionally reforms after strong precipitation
Lake Manly from Badwater, Death Valley, Dec 2023 a few months after floods from Hurricane Hilary
Shoreline Butte, close with shorelines visible
Salts left behind by Lake Manly, in Badwater Basin