Sometimes I choose my destinations and sometimes they choose me. Malawi was a little bit of both: first and foremost, there were some wonderful children that I needed to meet. However, as a lifelong ...

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 ...

New research shows that courtship rituals evolve very fast in cichlid fish in Lake Malawi. Whenever species evolve to feed at different depths, their courtship evolves as well. In the shallows where ...

In the second-largest lake in Africa, fish evolution is taking place at an explosive rate. Why? Scientists are diving into the question Ben Crair Lake Malawi formed in a valley where the African ...

There are about 16 species of Aulonocara cichlids in Lake Malawi, all of which feed in the sand. "These cichlids join a short list of fish that have been demonstrated to use their lateral line system ...

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 ...