This location has become a dumping ground for unwanted aquarium fish. What started as a simple investigation turned into a ...

The animal kingdom can be rather unforgiving, but even the cutest animals have strange reasons to do some pretty gruesome things, including eating their young.

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Central Michigan University has received nearly $900,000 as part of a five-year, $1.8 million grant from the National Science Foundation to investigate how competition between males may drive the ...

Cichlid fishes are famous for large, diverse and replicated adaptive radiations in the Great Lakes of East Africa. To understand themolecular mechanisms underlying cichlid phenotypic diversity, we ...

IN most of the modern texts on evolution 1, one of the outstanding proofs of speciation, that is, development of forms separated from one another under normal conditions by their immiscibility, ...

Over the years, aquarists and biologists have marveled at the dramatically thick lips of several African cichlid species. These unique fish, found in lakes Victoria, Malawi, and Tanganyika, have ...

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Scuba divers found some “large”-eyed lake creatures off the coast of Malawi and discovered two new species, a study said and photos show. Photo from Getty / iStockphoto Plunging into a large lake in ...

It all started with the Convict cichlids. The small striped fish, native of Central America, captured Sac State Biology Professor Ron Coleman’s attention in a laboratory at the University of Toronto ...

Freshwater fish populations in the Kavango and Zambezi (KAZA) river systems of southern Africa are in decline, so many stakeholders met last month in Namibia to share knowledge and suggest ways to ...

Editor’s Note: The above video shows KXAN News’ top morning headlines from Friday, Aug. 9, 2024. AUSTIN (KXAN) — The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department said a non-native hybrid Peacock Cichlid was ...