Geologists have documented that Lake Tanganyika in east Africa has experienced unprecedented warming in the last century. Using core samples obtained from the lake bed, the team determined the lake is ...

The macabre diets of scale-eating cichlids help shed light on the important role of frequency dependence in shaping genetic variation and the natural world. By Jeffrey McKinnon / MIT Press Reader ...

Lake Tanganyika in Africa is a true hotspot of organismal diversity. Approximately 240 species of cichlid fishes have evolved in this lake in less than 10 million years. A research team from the ...

New research suggests rising temperatures are responsible for the decline in fish in Africa's Lake Tanganyika. REUTERS/Goran Tomasevic Lake Tanganyika, the second largest freshwater lake in the world, ...

ARUSHA, Tanzania, Feb. 2 (Xinhua) -- Tanzania has embarked on a new project geared to replenish the dwindling fish stock in Lake Tanganyika -- the world's second deepest freshwater body, officials ...

A tiny striped fish called Neolamprologus obscurus only found in Lake Tanganyika in Zambia excavates stones to create shelter and increase the abundance of food for all fish in the group. This study ...

The lake's fish are a critical part of the diet of neighbouring countries, Burundi, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Tanzania and Zambia, providing up to 60 percent of the animal protein consumed in ...

An influx of refugees in the 1990s has increased fishing pressures on the lake New research blames rising temperatures over the last century as the key cause of decline in one of the world's most ...

Africa’s deepest freshwater lake holds a dizzying array of animals, including hundreds of species of cichlid fish found nowhere else in the world. They crowd the waters of Lake Tanganyika, with scales ...

Scientists have discovered that Lake Tanganyika, the second oldest and deepest lake in the world, is at the warmest in 1,500 years. Some 10 million people in Burundi, Tanzania, Zambia and the ...

Miami - Fish are becoming more scarce in Africa's oldest and deepest lake, Lake Tanganyika, because of climate warming, not just overfishing, US researchers said this week. The study on Lake ...