African cichlids are some of the most fascinating and diverse members of this unique family. All cichlids are members of the biological family Cichlidae. Scientists have a hard time estimating ...

Africa's Lake Victoria is home to one of evolution's greatest experiments. In its waters, what began as a single lineage belonging to the cichlid family of fishes has since given rise to a ...

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 ...

Figure 1: The adaptive radiation of African cichlid fish. Exceptional phenotypic variation, even among closely related species, makes cichlids different from most other fish groups, including ...

The unique diversity of cichlids in Africa’s oldest lake could help unlock the secrets of evolution. Baby Haplotaxodon microlepis scramble for safety in their mother’s mouth. Like many cichlid ...

Researchers hoping to learn why African freshwater cichlids carry newborn babies in their mouths discovered something even more bizarre: they devour some of the young offspring in the process ...

Wainwright's lab studies the evolution and diversity of fish. The cichlid fishes of Africa's great lakes are a particularly large and diverse group, adapted to a wide variety of habitats and food ...

Cichlids represent the most diverse adaptions of vertebrates in the world, and most of them—some 2,000 species and probably more—live in the freshwater African Great Lakes. There are so many ...

A central African cichlid fish, Astatotilapia burtoni—commonly called Burton’s mouthbrooder— sometimes consumes more than three-quarters of their own eggs and baby fish. After the eggs hatch ...

Cichlid fishes have undergone a mind-boggling degree of speciation. New research is revealing features of their genomes that primed them to diversify so spectacularly Africa's Lake Victoria is ...