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 ...

More than a thousand species of African cichlid live in Lake Malawi, and of these, several hundred are endemic. At 300 miles long and almost 300 miles wide, Lake Malawi is one of the largest in ...

Scientists are diving into the question Ben Crair Lake Malawi formed in a valley where the African tectonic plate is the process of splitting in two. Getty Images I first learned about cichlids ...

Researchers report genetic analysis of bower building behaviors in cichlid fishes in Lake Malawi. Cichlid fishes in Lake Malawi, Africa display species-specific innate behaviors related to bower ...