Cichlids are one of the largest and strangest groups of vertebrate fish — fish with backbones — on Earth. They’re popular as pets and farmed in aquaculture, and scientists have been studying them ...

An invasive fish caught Friday in the San Gabriel River north of Austin was the first of its kind documented in the wild in the United States, Texas Parks and Wildlife Department officials said this ...

From invasive snails to zebra mussels, Texas is no stranger to non-native species wreaking havoc on our waterways and fauna. On Friday, August 9, Texas Parks and Wildlife, the organization charged ...

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 those ...

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 home to ...

A new WWF report is sounding the alarm on Africa’s freshwater fish: one in four fish species it assessed is at risk of extinction. These declines threaten not only biodiversity, but also the food ...

The poster child for evolution may have finally revealed its secret. More than 1000 closely related but different species of cichlid fish live in Lake Malawi in south-east Africa – more than in any ...

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 ...