The water depth of Lake ... Malawi has fluctuated during the last 800,000 years. When its deep, there are more rocky shoreline habitats. Those niches could have driven the evolution of distinct ...

Scientists are diving into the question Ben Crair Lake Malawi formed ... safari would be completely underwater, but even so there would be astonishing variety. Some cichlid species squat in ...

Photo from Getty / iStockphoto Plunging into a large lake in the East African country of Malawi, divers scanned the rocky coast for ... in 2016 to search for cichlid fish, George Turner wrote ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] -- Africa's Lake Malawi ... in cichlid species. During the green phases, in contrast, lakebed habitats would be flat and sandy, lacking rocky niche environments.

Habitat types vary from rocky shorelines to sandy beaches ... It also protects all major underwater vegetation types and important breeding sites for the cichlids. Many other fish species of Lake ...

More than 1000 closely related but different species of cichlid fish live in Lake Malawi in south-east Africa ... as less water in the lake would shift the rocky shoreline inwards, alter ...