It has taken the lake
cichlids just 100 generations and as many years to evolve an entirely new physical feature: very fat lips.
Not exact matches
Matt Friedman, a paleobiologist at the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom, thought he could estimate
just how likely it was that there are more ancient
cichlid fossils out there.
The fossil record is spotty, so it seemed possible that older
cichlid fossils
just hadn't been discovered yet.
By the late 1980s,
just 10 years into the study, few
cichlids remained in Lake Victoria.
Researchers have discovered that the lake's more than 500 types of
cichlids all evolved from
just a few species.
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The 20 - gallon is
just big enough that people will try to keep larger
cichlids in it.
For years, I bred African Rift Lake
cichlids with no direct lighting,
just eight - foot fluorescents in the ceiling.