Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The axolotl may look cartoonishly harmless, but beneath its frilly gills lies one of evolution’s most astonishing survival ...

Axolotls are large salamanders that are endemic to Mexico. The species has declined in recent decades due to urbanization and pollution, but researchers are working on projects to build back ...

Axolotls (Ambystoma mexicanum) are a critically endangered species of salamander. The species has only one natural habitat remaining, a series of canals in Mexico City, and only 50 to 1,000 axolotls ...

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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 ...

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