Scuba divers found some “large”-eyed lake creatures off the coast of Malawi and discovered two new species, a study said and photos show. Photo from Getty / iStockphoto Plunging into a large lake in ...

A new study that looked at gut length variation between cichlid fish species found that some of the genetic loci for the trait are sex-specific even though males and females of the same species have ...

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 ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Some colorful cichlid fish in Africa's Lake Victoria formed a new species by adapting their vision, showing that geographical isolation is not essential for divergence, researchers ...

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 ...