Like a sea it has crabs, jellyfish, sponges, and clouds of zooplankton — yet it is totally freshwater and home to nearly 200 species of cichlid that have adapted to a unique life within its boundaries ...

Deep sand bed envy anyone? It also has mighty rivers that used to flow into it, but now flow out — and along with the 250 or so endemic cichlid species which evolved to fill the various niches the ...