A community of rare fish enthusiasts collects endangered species of freshwater fish from lakes and springs around the world, ...

Lake Tanganyika, a shining jewel nestled in the heart of Africa, stands as a testament to the delicate balance of nature. Its ...

Credit: Robert Lea (created with Canva) The cichlid fish in Lake Tanganyika never knew what was coming. How could they? A star from dozens of lightyears away was to blame for what would soon happen.

A distant star-killing supernova could have bombarded Earth with radiation strong enough to shift the course of evolution.

Wainwright's lab studies the evolution and diversity of fish. The cichlid fishes of Africa's great lakes are a particularly large and diverse group, adapted to a wide variety of habitats and food ...

African Cichlidae, also known as cichlids, the most diverse and textbook example of species diversification to fill different niches (a phenomenon known as adaptive radiation), were dominated by ...

Dar es Salaam, 26 February 2025 – The governments of Burundi, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Tanzania and Zambia have launched a five-year project to assess and address transboundary threats to the ...

THE fauna of Lake Tanganyika has aroused great interest on account of its abundance of species, many of which are found nowhere else. The hydrological features of the Lake are no less remarkable ...