All Midas cichlids from Central America start out life as black-and-white striped fish and then, almost magically, some of these fishes gradually lose their black colouration and turn bright golden.

Origin and Distribution. The blood parrot cichlid is a hybrid produced by breeding the Midas cichlid and the redhead cichlid. The fish was first created in Taiwan around 1986.

King Midas's high-meat diet helped fuel the destruction of his tomb, say US archaeologists. The 8 th century builders lined the tomb with woods with anti-microbial properties to protect the grave.

Rapid evolution of cichlids. The researchers led by Axel Meyer analyze the Midas cichlid fish from Nicaragua's volcanic crater lakes as a model system in their research.

Cichlid fishes are one of the best model system for the study of evolution of the species. Inspired by them, in this paper we simulated the splitting of a single species into two separate ones via ...

The turtles are located in SEA LIFE New Jersey’s freshwater turtle exhibit, and share a home with midas cichlids, silver arowanas and kissing prochilodus. Instagram users helped suggest names ...