On their own in the wild, axolotls are carnivores (meat eaters) and night hunters. When most of the world is asleep, they munch on worms, insects, mollusks, and small fish. They have small ...

This collection of axolotl salamanders has become the largest ... my senior research project was on the diets of forage fish in Lake Erie. As a graduate student at Kentucky State University ...

But urban sprawl, contaminated water and non-native fish that like to eat young axolotls have led to the salamander’s near-total collapse, according to population surveys. The axolotl is not the ...