For a total of nine months, first author Dr. Carolin Sommer-Trembo recorded the "exploratory behavior" of 57 different ...

Fish can change their teeth quickly, which speeds up their evolution. Cichlids in African lakes show the fastest transformations.

But African cichlids are famous for making the most of these two types of chompers, taking on more distinct habitats and more distinct diets than most other fish species. A surprisingly large ...

They will also uproot plants and move tiny decorations. Do not keep these fish with smaller ones to keep them from being eaten. Convict Cichlid. The Convict Cichlid comes in various colors like ...

In Lake Victoria, a giant lake shared between Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania, over a quarter of endemic species, including countless cichlids, are either critically endangered or extinct. But for some ...

The cichlid fish of Africa's Great Lakes have formed new species more rapidly than any other group of vertebrates. A new study shows that the ease with which these fish can develop a biological ...