Meanwhile, light gradient data showed blue light was more easily visible in shallow water and red light in deep water. The findings suggest that natural selection in each species' visual system toward ...

Some female fish have eyes for their man only. Colourful African cichlids have evolved into new species because females are partially blind to others. But even as that discovery is made, the species ...

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 ...

A new study that looked at gut length variation between cichlid fish species found that some of the genetic loci for the trait are sex-specific even though males and females of the same species have ...