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Big Bend Gambusia

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Photo by Raymond Skiles/National Park Service

The Big Bend gambusia lives on the edge. Their only habitat in the world is a cluster of warm, spring-fed pools in Big Bend National Park. The entire wild population could fit within a quarter-mile circle, one of the smallest ranges of any vertebrate. How has this endangered species clung to such a precarious existence?