African killifish becomes fastest maturing vertebrate on record

Monday, August 6, 2018 - 11:20 in Paleontology & Archaeology

For most of the year, annual killifish persist as diapausing embryos buried in sediments across the African savannah. When rainwater fills small depressions across the landscape, the fish must hatch, grow, mature, and produce the next generation before the pool dries up. Researchers have found that these small fish condense their life cycle even more in the wild than expected based on studies in the lab.

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