Scuba divers visited several spots at Lake Malawi in 2016 to search for cichlid fish, George Turner wrote in a study published Dec. 10 in the peer-reviewed Journal of Fish Biology. The lake is ...

American scientists showed that low-status male cichlid fish have higher levels of oxidative stress in their brain - which is linked to poorer mental and neurological health in humans. They ...

Many of the blue fish were zebra striped, while one of the yellow varieties had horizontal streaks of black and white. The rocky lakebed was like a collapsed cathedral. The cichlids, mostly two to ...

Several of those tanks house his own personal favorite fish. "It all began in 1999 when I fell in love with the Frontosa Cichlid," Cunningham said, referencing a freshwater fish endemic to Lake ...

That sort of defines me.” All of George’s fish are endangered Rift Lake cichlids: colorful, freshwater fish native to the Great Lakes of East Africa. Inside his 42 tanks, expertly squeezed ...

Over 1,800 species of cichlid fish live in Africa’s Rift Valleys lakes. In this crowded world, many cichlid species use ‘mouth-brooding’ to both incubate their eggs, and protect their young.

Angel Fitor is this year’s winner for his masterful underwater images of cichlid fishes in East Africa. Two male cichlid fish fight jaw to jaw over a snail shell. Inside the half-buried shell is a ...