This collection of axolotl salamanders has become the largest self-sustaining population in the world. The AGSC staff maintains an average breeding population of 1,000–1,200 adults, as well as a ...

Unlike other types of salamanders, which start off life in the water but eventually move to land, axolotls spend their whole life as an aquatic animal in a tadpole-like form. The reveal you've ...

managed to escape death by turning himself into a salamander. And that creature came to be known as the axolotl. In ancient Aztec tongue, the name 'Axolotl' translates to "water monster," and just ...

Is there any potential problem in housing tiger salamanders with axolotls or introducing wild axolotls to the colony? Could other amphibians or reptiles housed in close proximity be affected?

A museum and conservation centre dedicated to Mexico’s critically endangered axolotl salamander is highlighting the amphibian’s remarkable story that has captured the attention of scientists ...

But they are quite scientifically advanced. Axolotls are amphibians that never grow up. Unlike their fellow amphibians (like frogs and salamanders), these water-born creatures stay in the water ...

Prayag Murawala, Ph.D., of the MDI Biological Laboratory in Bar Harbor, Maine, uses the axolotl, or Mexican salamander, to study tendon regeneration. The axolotl is considered nature's champion of ...

Axolotls are able to regrow lost limbs and other body parts. As a result, these aquatic salamanders are of great interest to researchers worldwide who study them in the hope of imitating the trick ...

A Mexican amphibian, the axolotl is believed by many to be the Aztec god of fire and lightning. His name was Xolotl, and he ...