Breeding African cichlids introduces a new level of complexity to aquarium care. These baby fish require specific conditions ...

Kyoto, Japan -- "It takes a village to raise a child" doesn't apply merely to humans. Many species of mammals, birds, fish, ...

The evolution of new traits with novel functions has always posed a challenge to evolutionary biology. Studying the color markings of cichlid fish, Swiss scientists were now able to show what ...

Male cichlids that are constantly threatened by predators grow faster and postpone the full expression of conspicuous breeding coloration for longer. This is shown by a study by biologists from the ...

"16755"--Spine, v. 1; "16756"--Spine, v. 2. FISH copy v.1 has bookplate: Smithsonian Institution Libraries, Purchased from the Bruce Collette Endowment for the Fishes ...

In the depths of Lake Tanganyika in Africa, one of the oldest and most diverse freshwater ecosystems on the planet, lives a ...