| Divers find large-eyed lake creature with prominent teeth. | |
| By Aspen Pflughoeft |
Source: miamiherald |
12/13/2024 |
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Credit: Turner (2024) |
Plunging into a large lake in the East African country of Malawi, divers scanned the rocky coast for aquatic life. Some “large”-eyed creatures caught their attention — and turned out to be two 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 known for its “exceptional number” of cichlid fish species, but “many species, even some well-known ones, remain undescribed.”
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Researchers with the Malawi Cichlid Genomic Diversity Survey hoped to change that by collecting more fish specimens and studying them.
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