This is a LONG video of me at Aquashella. My favorite thing was the 300 gallon glass aquarium that houses 600 African Cichlids from lake Tanganyika in Africa. Not only do they breed african cichlids ...

Cichlids are one of the largest and strangest groups of vertebrate fish — fish with backbones — on Earth. They’re popular as pets and farmed in aquaculture, and scientists have been studying them ...

Researchers have developed an integrative approach to the classification of fossil cichlids and have identified the oldest known member of the tribe Oreochromini. Cichlids (Cichlidae) are a group of ...

Lake Tanganyika in Africa is a true hotspot of organismal diversity. Approximately 240 species of cichlid fishes have evolved in this lake in less than 10 million years. A research team from the ...

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

Cuckoo catfish may be the worst parents ever. Rather than raising their own cannibalistic offspring, they force other fish species to raise them in their own mouths. But how do they do it? New ...

Gene transfer inhibition in the African cichlids fish might explain the evolution of new species, a study in Nature Ecology & Evolution, has found. Martin Genner, a professor of Ecology, Population ...

The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results. A female ...

Arecent phylogeographical examination of east African river cichlid fish species has pinpointed the area of speciation to a now extinct lake in Botswana. The turbid rivers of Africa typically contain ...

This is an old article, reposted from the original WordPress incarnation of Not Exactly Rocket Science. I’m on holiday for the moment, but you can expect a few new pieces here and there (as well as ...

A collaborative research project has developed an integrative approach to the classification of fossil cichlids, and identified the oldest known member of the Tribe Oreochromini. A collaborative ...