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Pupfish Research
Experimental Evidence for Costs of Parasitism for a Threatened Species, White Sands Pupfish (Cyprinodon tularosa)
 
Morphological Divergence of Native and Recently Established Populations of White Sands Pupfish (Cyprinodon tularosa)
 
Historical Biogeography of the New-World Pupfish Genus Cyprinodon
 
A Molecular Evaluation of Conservation Units, Translocations, and Habitat Fragmentation for a Threatened Species: the White Sands Pupfish

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Photo of sand avalanching

Did You Know?
While the wind piles the sand grains into dunes, the dunes move forward under the force of gravity. As the leading edge of the dune ("slipface") gets steeper, gravity pulls an avalanche of sand down the slipface, moving the dune forward.
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