Over fishing and a lack of wild spaces has put the axolotl on the critically endangered species list, raising concerns about ...

The salamanders have become a pop culture phenomenon, and one named Maxolotl is at the Reptile and Amphibian House.

Among the first modern zoo animals, 34 axolotls were brought from Mexico (along with three deer and three wild dogs) to the ...

It is dwindling in the wild because of serious threats to its natural habitat. For decades, researchers have marvelled at how the axolotl can regenerate amputated limbs, damaged body tissue ...

Mama collects the cap, lays her eggs on rocks in a place that’s safe from predators, and two weeks later, baby axolotls are hatched. They swim off on their own. On their own in the wild ...

All animals that exhibited these signs died within one to five days. Following the introduction in late 1994 of wild axolotls from Lake Xochimilco, our colony had undergone a similar disease ...

The axolotl is a unique amphibian famous for its ability to regrow lost limbs. This creature lives in water and has feathery ...

According to Mori, many pink- and white-colored axolotls distributed in Japan and elsewhere have been genetically modified for ornamental purposes. Wild ones are typically dark-colored.

A few canals here are also the last refuge of another species known as the Mexican axolotl. This species is even closer to extinction in the wild – there may be as few as 500 left. Paradoxically ...

A being like that exists. The axolotl is a critically endangered amphibian in the wild (it survives in captivity in countless domestic aquariums and laboratories) with peculiarities worthy of study.

Today’s Google Doodle is a celebration of Lake Xochimilco, a natural lake near Mexico City that also happens to be the last remaining habitat for the axolotls—a species related to the salamander.