These tiny, endangered fish lives beneath Death Valley

[@Cletus_the_Elder]

His unique method of counting fish turns out to be just counting fish one by one.

[@gminerr]

little did the ones going in the water. there is no method.

[@KlongKlongKlong]

because there are so little fish you can count them one by one instead of estimating

[@joshdoe7288]

Came here to say this XD

[@PnaiPride]

It is unique way/method since it requires multiple divers to go one by one on each tier since the depth of the cave varies. It’s not like a poo that is flat or an aquarium, im-B-cile. Simple English.

[@Cletus_the_Elder]

@@PnaiPride I know counting above 100 is reserved for scientists where you're from, and graduate students work on dissertations to count above 70. We just take it for granted here.

[@michaelchen163]

Highly scientific, unique way of precisely counting these fish: “We count them”

[@OspreyMantis]

Glad to see these fish getting some recognition, they are pretty cool fish

[@svenmorgenstern9506]

And tasty...😂

[@adambruins]

@@svenmorgenstern9506bros eating nothing

[@Crustaceanking50]

They are getting too much recognition, the red hand fish is even rarer yet gets non

[@MrDuntus]

The most non-scientific science video I’ve ever seen in my life. You Sure that guy wasn’t just a security guard.

[@Crash_Tv.]

I gotta see what this statement means

[@calix5768]

non-scientific science 💀💀💀

[@ary2407]

​@@calix5768 little bit confusing huh 😅

[@jrkc9218]

Wow. That’s amazing. To survive for 1000s of years in such a small habitat.

[@kaox44]

Expert: due to climate change and the rise of temperature Death-valley: wow…you’re a genie aren’t you…

[@michaelsmith3381]

Allow these fish to go into the pet trade and watch their numbers multiply incredibly. If they only live in one spot in the entire planet then allow aquarist to grow them outside their range in home aquariums. That way if the wild population dwindles you have a vast number of private stock to replenish their numbers. In fact one species of pup fish was saved from extinction by doing this very thing.

[@G5im7]

They can only survive in very very specific conditions or else they die

[@joshdoe7288]

@@G5im7yeah that what high level keepers are for.

[@PnaiPride]

Yeah you’re very smart. Look at what happened to Tasmanian tiger. Bozo! Love how all these key board warriors all of sudden obtained their PhD just by watching & giving their opinion.

[@probablydepends9069]

​​@@G5im7 that is exactly why they would probably thrive in the pet market, knowing fish owners they would pay a lot to keep and breed rare fish especially if they are as pretty as the ones shown on video, the only problem these would probably have is the ethical process of taking an endangered animal off its natural habitat which the scientist are already doing 😅

[@RayBarK1]

@@G5im7 it will be extremely easy to give them what they need with a simple RO filter

[@carpy1252]

California never ceases to amaze me.

[@brianmckeever5280]

BTW, Lake Manly had water the end of 2023. They had kayakers, no boating per se, but the kayaks floated. Very other-worldly to see. As for endangered species of fishes, there is also the Pahrump Poolfish at the Desert National Wildlife Refuge not too far from Death Valley. They have a refugium that houses much of the remaining population of the species in what amounts to an aquarium. Interesting to contemplate that aquarium is all that prevents the species from going extinct. Nice to know people can be awesome.

[@ARod-br2ui]

If they don’t even know how deep this underground cavern is then how is it that they know the precise number of these fish???

[@KinghtofZero00]

Maybe they know how deep with fish can swim

[@BadBoy-so2pq]

may be is deeper than what they know...fish come from center of earth ?

[@michaelmiguel6937]

“We don’t know how deep the devils hole actually is”

[@fennten8338]

Incredible. I've been there many times and ha no idea these fish existed

[@allanshipton2740]

If it’s that bad, then it’s just a matter of time unless you recreate their habitat in a expert ran aquarium that functions like a museum to preserve their species.

[@jeffalbillar7625]

They could also breed them and sell them to various breeders who could then turn around and breed them as well.

[@levibruner4406]

The super intense music made this kinda dumb. Maybe tone it down a couple notches 😂

[@NettinFish]

No this is legendary

[@bodomcarnage3730]

Your seriously complaining about a theme for a documentary...pathetic

[@RoccosVideos]

They're really beautiful. I hope they can be saved.

[@Linkwii64]

These fish better survive at aquarium at this point.

[@dt4676]

I would love some and triple their numbers in a year

[@Entertainment_Enterprise]

I think it's funny how there is only 136 fish left yet I know where there's about 15 ponds all over that valley full of that fish. I lived there for 20 years. Born and raised in Owens Valley.

[@ChrisBlackNYC]

Narration and Music is on point! You had one job and you nailed it! Thank you! 💙

[@dazzer273]

Maxing well done team 👏🏼👏🏼

[@TuathaDeAcaciaTribe]

😮 I learned something new... Thank You ❤❤❤❤❤

[@11UncleBooker22]

Our tax dollars at work. 🙂

[@scottmasterson7728]

Enjoyed the video. Thanks.

[@billybongthornton777]

Those fish have been stuck there since the great flood 😂

[@mikeo8890]

They have beautiful thunder storms.

[@jeffalbillar7625]

New Mexico and Arizona have beautiful thunderstorms as well

[@adamg400]

As someone that went to school to study ecology this is so cool. Also makes me wonder who is funding this projects. If it came from a federal grant that has a huge blanket to save all critically endangered animals or if they were some how (i find unreasonable) able to convince the government for funding for a small fish in the desert although i love the pupfish it doesnt not seem to aid in much other life nearby

[@charlescampisijr.8065]

Why don't they mention that the nearest property owner had a well installed and unknowingly using the water on his property it inadvertently lowered the water level? As of April 2024, the population of Devils Hole pupfish in Death Valley National Park was 191, the highest spring count in 25 years

[@brakesforsnakes757]

Devil's Hole is not in DV.

[@dirkdiggler2430]

Love how as soon as humans find life somewhere it's automatically under the endangered species.

[@mrr5835]

I agree. Im pretty sure Mother Nature set this fish up for failure. It wasn't meant to live forever.

[@marrmaladee]

@@mrr5835 Mother nature didn't set anything up for failure. If you listened to the video, this is a result of humans due to climate change.

[@handthing9709]

This fish has been and always will be on the endangered species list solely due to where it lives

[@dirkdiggler2430]

@handthing9709 the quantity or environment of where are species lives doesn't determine its future.

[@lorentzfactor5118]

As I understand it, the process to designate a species as endangered is actually pretty involved. Pretty sure by default a newly discovered species is not classified as endangered. Could you elaborate?

[@sisterpamop]

I ❤ pup fish.

[@netweed09]

Hells valley, Dev!ls hole Furnace basin - Scientists: "must count the ultra rare feesh in the Pond"

[@RejectHumanityReturn2Monke]

Pretty similar to Tawilis, the only known freshwater sardines, that lives exclusively in Taal volcano's lake. After the massive 2020 explosion, people were worried it would drive the tawilis to extinction but somehow they survived the explosion.

[@Rantsack]

Species only become endangered. When human discovers them. Anything human discovers, always end up in extinction

[@cwaydeeznutz]

Dinosaurs turning in their graves

[@Shadow-jk6ip]

As of today, they have almost reached the 200 individuals mark. Doubt they would go extinct soon, they would probably start becoming widely spread throughout the pet trade.

[@1badEK]

They’re only endangered cause they can’t escape perfection valley. Just gotta catch a group of them and release into the California Delta and they’ll thrive. lol

[@AAAAAAHHHHHHHH1]

That’s not how it works lol

[@robmangeri777]

As a biologist I have three main thoughts. 1.) there are fish in a mysterious hole under Death Valley? Awesome! 2.) I’m glad they are able to raise these fish in tanks. That means you can easily prevent extinction. 3.) main stream science looks like it went extinct and was replaced with childish political drama and mindless adherence to politically expedient dogma. As a Christian… don’t even get me started lol!

[@7steven7dawood78]

fish breeders could easily breed hundreds of them. They need to be given to experienced fish breeders. Unlimited food, no predators lots of breeding

[@Srt3D01-db-01]

If you dont know how deep the lake is, these fish can survive superficial flashflooods, etc. They can survive on aquafers laying eggs etc practically undisturbed

[@kenxiong6830]

Critically endangered or just critically bad luck?!! Lol

[@NettinFish]

If they’ve never been the bottom? How do they know these fish aren’t blooming in numbers deep down in the water? What if these 100+ that they counted was just a few that kept swimming up.

[@kito1san]

How do they know if not someone implanted them there at one time.

[@jordyb57]

Molecular phylogenetics / comparative genomics

[@arkapadma]

They're quiet pretty, for those people who save them. I hope you breed them and sell some to the hobbies, then they'll be uplifted from endangered status pretty soon. Aquarium hobbies is about loving nature.

[@minnermin]

They’re the coolest fish I know of would be nice too see em one day

[@AndrewEvrard-oc8ig]

The 7.0 had this shaking? The pup fish might not spawn?

[@brakesforsnakes757]

I'm a stickler for accuracy and they don't live beneath Death Valley. The Devils Hole pupfish range is restricted to a single cave called Devils Hole located within Ash Meadows National Wildlife Refuge ( Not located within Death Valley ). Please do better.

[@straycats9934]

Leave those fishes alone they're not even disturb you

[@JahRasta01]

These things were endangered the moment they became a species

[@Lost_itt]

Nice info vid, but please reconsider the action movie music next time. It takes so much away from the video instead of adding to it.

[@cg5876-o1r]

Pup Sushi in Japan is the rarest and most expensive of delicacies

[@BlueBallsBetty]

Great now the Chinese will want to eat them smh 🤦‍♂️

[@FYMASMD]

What a weak comment

[@simpledreams760]

@@FYMASMD - But it's true. They eat anything. Look it up. It's on KZbin.

[@Toenailish]

A weird percentage of the comments on this video are completely brain dead for an informational video I’ve realized

[@BlueBallsBetty]

If you live in California or anywhere near body of water, you would know the Chinese are the number 1 poachers of animals here. It’s not because they will literally eat anything and deplete populations of animals

[@Shadow-jk6ip]

Racism, the finest of jokes.

[@sbryant1993sb]

This is a awsome video suprised only 33 views

[@CReacts999]

2:40 by “unique” he means they’re collecting them.. how else are you counting the fish? 😂

[@BUCKETJON]

They’re not “endangered”. They have always and only lived here in low numbers… Just leave them alone and they’ll be fine. 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️

[@Inhaler22PS]

Not to discredit them but while hiking about half a mile away I saw a school of around 20.

[@elementsoflife000]

Look for evidence of freshwater corals in earth history

[@Loe_2.0]

We should be saving these fish instead of pandas, they just aren’t fit for life, and there’s many other species that should be saved instead of pandas.

[@kelliott7864]

Get these little guys into the aquarium trade, so they can be preserved by citizen scientists.

[@kcs1981]

2023 the lake resurfaced again

[@tysongonsorowski8574]

They built a multi million dollar tank and put countless man hours into savings these fish.

[@stealthfirefishing]

I was just there today

[@BadBoy-so2pq]

wait waitwait...............many many years ago...............how many r there ? ?? ?

[@jeremiahtorrevillas4396]

So sad to see this kind of species

[@deesaquapetsmore784]

How’d they become endangered? I mean, surely there’s no habitat loss in Death Valley or even pollution right?

[@erikgransjon1105]

If anything happens to the devils hole they can be wiped out all together.

[@sci-fiaction6576]

Death Valley pupfish are so cute These cute fish live only in hottest areas in America

[@irondog1041]

How about put them in to the bigger breeding facility’s and then sell them to pet stores doing 3 things insuring there population can be preserved by breeders, pet stores and people who keep them as pets. 2 give the program trying to conserve there only habitat more funding, 3 last but most importantly saves tax payers dollars. Like we do this already with none endangered species. If we could increase there numbers through this route it seam like a win win for everyone. Fish numbers increase people get a cool fish to be able to have as a pet and taxes payer money is saved

[@tonym9716]

A professor i had believe that there's a great lake under las vegas and should California fault lines ever get that earthquake, vegas will also be under water

[@Memessssss]

W vid

[@fearlesss4]

How tf do they know all 137 fish survived 😂

[@Absolumdan]

Oh to be a pup fish living in devils hole

[@TruckKun]

Just introduce the fish to a lake or something, easy, saved the species

[@erikgransjon1105]

They won't survive there

[@AAAAAAHHHHHHHH1]

This comment section lacks basic education about climate change and the importance of preserving endangered species and fragile ecosystems

[@taikonout]

Why that fish so important

[@deecat2018]

Taking 6 give it to fish breeder and sell it as very rare fish and it not gonna extinct

[@Knivez84]

Dang climate change..... if only we started saving those fish and that lake 128,000 years ago while we still could...

[@Chrsadrian]

They look like Pygmy Sunfish

[@svk_5104]

Fix your title lol. It should be “live” not “lives”

[@dizzlerizzle2775]

they look like some for of goodied live bearers, tell someone to get me some and ill breed em

[@winoseti]

divers stirring up silt choke the last pupfish

[@jacobt1045]

Your title is grammatically incorrect

[@MVSky.]

No worries, fish soon robot will replace human too.😅😅😅

[@BlessTheUS123]

Their is a thing as a natural exintction

[@SuggonDeez-p8j]

90 % of all animal species have gone extinct. Why are we wasting money and resources on this 1 inch guppy?

[@AAAAAAHHHHHHHH1]

Where did that percentage come from?

[@SuggonDeez-p8j]

@AAAAAAHHHHHHHH1 from 100 %

[@AAAAAAHHHHHHHH1]

@@SuggonDeez-p8j I should’ve expected a nonsense answer like that

[@graffic13]

Ask a mortician has a great video about pupfish and Charles Manson! It's great

[@Mrbfgray]

Always talking about climate change and increasing temps yet the hottest ever recorded was in 1913, 134F in Death Valley, and the hottest ever recorded in USA was 137F, also early last century but inland of San Diego, Cali.

[@teejayman215]

Huh? What does that have to do with anything to refute climate change?

[@Mrbfgray]

@@teejayman215 It doesn't, it refutes the popular hysterical propaganda that includes nonsense like--weather extremes are becoming more severe. All the unscientific garbage from MSN and data deniers, aka., climate alarmists.

[@Mrbfgray]

@@teejayman215 It doesn't, it refutes the popular hysterical propaganda that includes nonsense like--weather extremes are becoming more severe. All the unscientific garbage from data deniers, aka., climate alarmists.

[@Mrbfgray]

@@teejayman215 It doesn't, it refutes the popular hysterical propaganda that includes nonsense like--weather extremes are becoming more severe.

[@Mrbfgray]

@@teejayman215 How often do we here MSN spouting "all time highs", record this and that, from data deniers.

[@ItzLordeYT]

Nice grammar in the title lol

[@parkerelijah1936]

2:12 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 ... americans being typical American 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@themook01]

Bro thinks climate change caused an earthquake .

[@Srt3D01-db-01]

0:37 like always, the records are always located in the united states , isnt it? Lol Hottest desert, biggest falls in niagara ( but in reality its a TINY Falls 😂 Look for the sonoran desert, it hit a record temperature of 80 C 😂 57 C is nothing. Several mexican cities in mexico get +50 C during the summer lol This data from the desert valley is waaay oudated ...

[@christianzambrano9637]

😂😂😂😂😂 liberals

[@AAAAAAHHHHHHHH1]

Nothing political about this video. Are u even old enough to vote?

[@LSDcards]

Climate change global warming is a scam get over your facade😅

[@AAAAAAHHHHHHHH1]

Google is your best friend

[@soccerkills]

Why not use a robot to go down and see how deep it actually is?

[@Srt3D01-db-01]

0:37 like always, the records are always located in the united states , isnt it? Lol Hottest desert, biggest falls in niagara ( but in reality its a TINY Falls 😂 Look for the sonoran desert, it hit a record temperature of 80 C 😂 57 C is nothing. Several mexican cities in mexico get +50 C during the summer lol This data from the desert valley is waaay oudated ...

[@erikgransjon1105]

You do understand that temperature is meassured in a shadowy place?