Lost African Lake Spawned Fish Diversity "Beyond Belief

[jabber]

Here is an interesting article I came across on African cichlids.

Their diversity is perhaps most impressive in the Great Lakes of East Africa, where a handful of colonizing fish species have multiplied over thousands of years into many hundreds of species found nowhere else in the world.

Scientists say they have now uncovered a second evolutionary hot spot for these fish. The experts have traced the origins of cichlids in rivers across southern Africa to a single lake that no longer exists....

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/05/0504_050504_chiclids.html

[Marc]

Interesting article.  Thanks for posting it.  I've put it up on the main page of the website.

Marc