Devils Hole II is a narrow crack in the rock, not a wide open cavern, and its walls are coated with thick layers of calcite formed as groundwater slowly seeped through over hundreds of thousands of ...

In the heart of the Mojave Desert, far from snowcapped peaks or roaring rivers, a narrow crack in the rock has quietly stored half a million years of climate history. Now, scientists have learned to ...

The Devil’s Hole appears unremarkable from the surface, but beneath it lies one of the most mysterious natural formations in ...

A tiny desert fish survives in a sun-scorched cavern on the edge of extinction. Here’s how it’s offering scientists a rare glimpse into the extremes life can endure. If you ever needed proof that ...

The July earthquake in eastern Russia sent shockwaves that were felt in a small cavern in the Nevada Desert. The cavern is home to the Devils Hole pupfish, a tiny, rare fish that exists only in a ...

A magnitude 7.1 earthquake sent shock waves through the Devil's Hole in western Nevada on July 5, 2019. The waves created by the earthquake caused the water to rise and drop at least 10-15 feet.