Africa's Lake Malawi is home to hundreds of species of cichlids, the freshwater fish whose broad array of colors make them popular denizens of household aquariums. A new study shows how dramatic ...

These fish come in all shapes and colors, making the underwater landscape a vibrant one. The lake's isolation has led to the ...

Ryan York from Stanford University has looked at the various courtship rituals of cichlid fish at different depths in Lake Malawi. His findings, published in the journal Frontiers in Ecology and ...

Nature always finds a way, but those ways aren’t necessarily pretty. In fact, in regions with plenty of resource competition, ...

The Lake Malawi National Park was established in 1980 under the National Parks and Wildlife Act (Cap. 66.07) to preserve a sample of the Lake Malawi biome, with particular reference to the rocky ...

Animals are remarkably diverse in their sleep and activity patterns due to foraging strategies, social behavior and their desire to avoid predators. With more than 3,000 types of cichlids, these ...

The alternative text for this image may have been generated using AI. Figure 2: The phenotypically derived species has higher endogenous levels of Wnt signalling during craniofacial development. The ...

This is an old article, reposted from the original WordPress incarnation of Not Exactly Rocket Science. I’m on holiday for the moment, but you can expect a few new pieces here and there (as well as ...

Periods of deep, clear water in Lake Malawi over the past 800,000 years coincide with bursts of species diversification, researchers show in a new report. Africa's Lake Malawi is home to hundreds of ...

Despite the dramatic difference between day and nightlife, how fish exploit different times of day has not been studied systematically. Scientists explored alterations in the circadian timing of ...