Social stress is bad for your brain. It's a prime suspect in the accumulation of oxidative stress in the brain, which is ...

In bony fish the swim bladder primarily serves for buoyancy. Moreover, in many species it also possesses acoustic functions: it plays a role in sound production and improves hearing in numerous ways.

The analysis of fossils in sediment cores from Lake Victoria, Africa, reveals that a group of cichlid fish rapidly diversified as the lake got larger and provided new ecological niches, whereas the ...

Dubai’s indoor rainforest opens new aquarium with 2,000 African cichlid fish Starting June 22, guests can dive into the world's largest freshwater cichlid aquarium for the ‘Snorkel with Cichlid’ ...

Cichlids are one of the largest and strangest groups of vertebrate fish — fish with backbones — on Earth. They’re popular as pets and farmed in aquaculture, and scientists have been studying them ...

Understanding why some evolutionary lineages generate exceptionally high species diversity is an important goal in evolutionary biology. Haplochromine cichlid fishes of Africa’s Lake Victoria region ...

The unique diversity of cichlids in Africa’s oldest lake could help unlock the secrets of evolution. Baby Haplotaxodon microlepis scramble for safety in their mother’s mouth. Like many cichlid species ...

Raising babies can be exhausting—so much so that some mouthbrooding mothers snack on their young, according to a new study. A central African cichlid fish, Astatotilapia burtoni—commonly called Burton ...

A Case Western Reserve University scientist has played the lead role in identifying an invasive species related to one already threatening other fish in the waters of the southern United States. That ...

Researchers recorded lemon sharks (Negaprion brevirostris) preying on an invasive species, the jaguar cichlid (Parachromis ...