A museum and conservation centre dedicated to Mexico’s critically endangered axolotl salamander is highlighting ... regrow its mouth. The Mexican tetra is a river fish that can regenerate ...

The axolotl, or Mexican salamander, is one of the three regenerative species described in a new paper that identified common genetic regulators governing limb regeneration in all three species.

Latin America is a land of jaw-dropping biodiversity. Stretching from Mexico down to the southern tip of South America, this ...

Yet the axolotl has become an improbable global megastar. Shops are crowded with cuddly axolotls. Toy axolotls fall out of McDonald’s Happy Meals. Axolotl-themed clothes, jewellery and Christmas ...

The nuns also began to breed and rear their axolotls for medical reasons. They use the salamander as the key ingredient in a traditional Mexican remedy for coughs and other respiratory illnesses.

Juliana Mancinelli is 4, and she has gotten rather good at educating adults about a critically endangered Mexican salamander. The New Jersey preschooler’s favorite animal is the axolotl ...

In rare cases, axolotls can lose their gills and move onto land like most other salamander species (a process ... worms, small fish, and tadpoles. However, like many amphibians, axolotls don ...

The critically endangered axolotl—also known as the Mexican salamander—shares a type of cell, called a glial cell, with humans. If an axolotl hurts its spinal cord, its glial cells go to work ...

Wild ones are typically dark-colored. The axolotl is also called the Mexican salamander. In its country of origin, Mexico, the axolotl population has decreased due to environmental contamination ...

On this day in 1920, the Mexican ... home to the rare axolotl species. Lake Xochimilco is also currently the last remaining native habitat on Earth for axolotls, fresh-water salamanders that ...

Every day, people tune into the short videos of Buddy the Axolotl, a cartoon version of the artist's own living Mexican salamander called an axolotl (pronounced ak·suh·laa·tl). The artist also ...