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

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 ...

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

African Cichlidae, also known as cichlids, the most diverse and textbook example of species diversification to fill different niches (a phenomenon known as adaptive radiation), were dominated by ...

The cichlid fishes of Africa's great lakes are a particularly large and diverse group, adapted to a wide variety of habitats and food sources in the lakes. They form new species more readily than ...

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 ...