Have you ever felt stuck in a bad situation that you couldn't get out of, through no fault of your own, and all you could do is just make the best of it?

Such is the life of the Devils Hole pupfish.

10,000 years back, it somehow got trapped in a small, inhospitable fishbowl made of rock in a desert. A decade ago, only 35 fish were left. But lately its been doing better, despite—or maybe partly because of—flash floods and earthquakes.

https://www.npr.org/2023/07/07/1182118098/against-all-odds-the-rare-devils-hole-pupfish-keeps-on-swimming
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