Ahead of the World Cup, Mexico City has turned the axolotl into a kind of unofficial mascot. The smiling salamander now ...

A newly identified ancient relative of the Mexican axolotl is giving scientists a rare window into the deep history of one of the world's most unusual amphibians. Discovered in sediments north of ...

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A critically endangered Mexican axolotl has been found in a Welsh river by a 10-year-old girl, marking the first documented discovery of the species in the wild in the United Kingdom. Only 50 to 1,000 ...

A 10-year-old girl on holiday in South Wales pulled a 9-inch Mexican axolotl from a river — marking the first documented discovery of the critically endangered creature in the wild in the U.K. Evie ...

A Mexican axolotl has been found in a U.K. river for the first time ever in recorded history — and the person who spotted it was a 10-year-old girl on holiday with her family. Evie Hill discovered the ...

Evie Hill’s mother told her the creatures she watched on YouTube weren’t real. Then the 10-year-old pulled an axolotl out of a Welsh river. Evie was on holiday with her family near the Dipping Bridge ...

In another life, I’d be the type of person with a regular breakfast spot. It’d be a part of my daily morning routine: wake up early, stroll by the lake, then mosey over to a cozy little joint where my ...

"I caught it and brought it back," said Evie of the axolotl, spotted while visiting Wales with her mom Lexi Lane is a weekend banking writer at PEOPLE. She first joined as a member of the PEOPLE App ...

A young girl was told by her mom that axolotls were "not real" until one day she surprisingly spotted the endangered amphibian under a bridge. Evie, 10, was spending the day with her mother, Melanie ...

What started out as a routine river trip for one British 10-year-old and her mother quickly turned into a journey through Mexican mythology, after the young nature enthusiast happened upon an ...