Different beak and jaw shapes are illustrative examples of how animal species have adapted to different food sources. In a ...

The evolution of new traits with novel functions has always posed a challenge to evolutionary biology. Studying the color markings of cichlid fish, Swiss scientists were now able to show what ...

A family of fishes, called the cichlids, in Africa's Lake Malawi is helping researchers refine our understanding of how evolution works. A family of fishes, called the cichlids, in Africa's Lake ...

Lake Tanganyika in Africa is home to one of the most impressive examples of rapid evolution. Around 250 species of cichlid ...

Nature always finds a way, but those ways aren’t necessarily pretty. In fact, in regions with plenty of resource competition, ...

Africa’s deepest freshwater lake holds a dizzying array of animals, including hundreds of species of cichlid fish found nowhere else in the world. They crowd the waters of Lake Tanganyika, with scales ...

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There are concerned, overprotective parents, and then there are cichlid fish. After a male cichlid fertilizes the female’s eggs, she holds her entire brood of embryos inside her mouth for two weeks ...

These fish come in all shapes and colors, making the underwater landscape a vibrant one. The lake's isolation has led to the ...

The evolution of new traits with novel functions has always posed a challenge to evolutionary biology. Studying the color markings of cichlid fish, Swiss scientists were now able to show what ...

AMHERTS, Mass. – A family of fishes, called the cichlids, in Africa’s Lake Malawi is helping researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst to refine our understanding of how evolution works. ...