A pair of researchers at Central Michigan University has found that cichlid fish that brood their young in their mouths eat up to 40% of their offspring. For their paper published in the journal ...

A single African lake produced nearly 500 fish species in roughly 15,000 years, an evolutionary sprint that should’ve ta ...

A Case Western Reserve University scientist has played the lead role in identifying an invasive species related to one already threatening other fish in the waters of the southern United States. That ...

East Africa’s Lake Victoria is home to over 500 species of cichlid, and according to scientists, that amount of diversity is a recent development. With the lake only filling with water some 16,000, ...

Cuckoo catfish may be the worst parents ever. Rather than raising their own cannibalistic offspring, they force other fish species to raise them in their own mouths. But how do they do it? New ...

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 ...

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 ...

Cichlid fish are seen sucking up sand and spitting it out in a pile to impress females and intimidate rivals with their 'sandcastles'. The mounds of sand, called bowers, are each subtly different in ...

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 ...