• The dunes in soft light

    White Sands

    National Monument New Mexico

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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

Did You Know?

Photo of yucca growing on a dune

Some species of plants can survive burial by a moving dune by a process called "stem elongation." As the sand rises, the plants quickly grow upward to keep their leaves above the rising sand.