Scientists are diving into the question Ben Crair Lake Malawi formed in a valley where the African tectonic plate is the process of splitting in two. Getty Images I first learned about cichlids ...

Scuba divers visited several spots at Lake Malawi in 2016 to search for cichlid fish, George Turner wrote in a study ...

In the case of cichlids, the isolated ecosystems of lakes Victoria, Malawi, and Tanganyika act as natural laboratories for parallel evolution. Each lake has its own distinct set of cichlid species ...