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, an amphibian ...

GAILON − The Lowe-Volk Park in Crawford County allowed children to see, touch and hold axolotls on Saturday afternoon. An axolotl is an aquatic salamander that is native to Mexico and is related to ...

THE BARGAINING TABLE IN THE COMING WEEKS. WELL, WHEN GLENN TOLD ME HE WAS DOING THIS NEXT STORY, I KNEW EXACTLY WHAT HE WAS TALKING ABOUT BECAUSE MY DAUGHTER LOVES THESE THINGS. YEAH. MEANWHILE, I ...

Axolotls, often called “water dogs,” are a unique species of salamander gaining popularity among exotic pet enthusiasts. Unlike most amphibians, these creatures retain their larval features throughout ...

The axolotl may look cartoonishly harmless, but beneath its frilly gills lies one of evolution’s most astonishing survival abilities: functional brain regeneration.

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with scientist Alejandra Ramos, who just led a study about axolotls born in captivity who were released into the wild and survived. We've got some good news for axolotls. Those ...