Florida's exotic fish invasion includes a surprisingly robust population of African cichlids — species that originated in ...

It all started with the Convict cichlids. The small striped fish, native of Central America, captured Sac State Biology Professor Ron Coleman’s attention in a laboratory at the University of Toronto ...

Kyoto, Japan -- "It takes a village to raise a child" doesn't apply merely to humans. Many species of mammals, birds, fish, ...

Male cichlids that are constantly threatened by predators grow faster and postpone the full expression of conspicuous breeding coloration for longer. This is shown by a study by biologists from the ...

The evolution of new traits with novel functions has always posed a challenge to evolutionary biology. Studying the color markings of cichlid fish, Swiss scientists were now able to show what ...