Cichlid fishes, renowned for their extraordinary speciation and adaptive radiation, provide an exceptional framework to explore evolutionary dynamics, particularly through the study of their parasites ...

Most fish rely primarily on their vision to find prey to feed upon, but a University of Rhode Island biologist and her colleagues have demonstrated that a group of African cichlids feeds by using its ...

Scientists have uncovered evidence of fish mating with species different from their own—a process that can lead to the creation of several new species. For a study published in the journal Nature ...

Through a series of prosocial choice tasks, researchers reveal prosocial and antisocial characteristics in male convict cichlid fish. The fish distinguish between female breeding partners, unknown ...

You’re considering new fish for your home aquarium, but all you see in your local pet store are the usual guppies, tetras, and small cichlids. You want a more unusual fish that stands out from the ...

Africa’s deepest freshwater lake holds a dizzying array of animals, including hundreds of species of cichlid fish found nowhere else in the world. They crowd the waters of Lake Tanganyika, with scales ...