Scientists have uncovered evidence of fish mating with species different from their own—a process that can lead to the creation of several new species. For a study published in the journal Nature ...
No less than 500 new species of cichlids, brightly coloured perch-like fish, evolved in Lake Victoria (East Africa) over the past 15,000 years -- a record in the animal and plant world. This ...
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 has ...
About this issue Abstract Phylogenetic analyses based on mitochondrial (mt) DNA have indicated that the cichlid species flock of the Lake Victoria region is derived from a single ancestral species ...
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 ...
Researchers recorded lemon sharks (Negaprion brevirostris) preying on an invasive species, the jaguar cichlid (Parachromis ...