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Fish Teeth Show That Ease of Evolution Is Its Own Evolutionary Advantage
Learn about the evolutionary ease of cichlid fishes, which transition from simple to complex teeth (and vice-versa) faster ...
Fish Teeth Show How Ease of Innovation Enables Rapid Evolution
It’s not what you do, it’s how readily you do it. Rapid evolutionary change might have more to do with how easily a key ...
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Low-status cichlid fish show higher brain oxidative stress, which is linked to poorer mental health in humans
A fish-eat-fish world Male cichlids have a strict, highly visible social hierarchy. Dominant males, which have higher levels of androgen hormones, are larger, more aggressive, and more colorful ...
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Divers find ‘large’-eyed lake creature with ‘prominent’ teeth. It’s a new species
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 ...
Wild Fish Recognize Individual Humans Who Feed Them
There is some anecdotal evidence indicating that fish do recognize individual humans, but this evidence comes exclusively ...
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No parent–child conflicts about when young cichlid fish leave home
Behavioural experiments in shell-dwelling cichlid fish reveal evolutionary adaptations in parents and offspring that control the timing of emergence from the nest. To mimic the empty snail shells ...
Rare fish species successfully hatched at zoo
Eggs from a rare Mexican fish species believed to be extinct in the wild have successfully hatched at Bristol Zoological ...
10 unique animals that give birth from the mouth
Nature is fascinating and here’s proof of it. These 10 animals defy norms by giving birth through their mouths ...