The axolotl is an unusual-looking pet, but it’s the very reason that attracts people to them. They live underwater and have ...

The axolotl-keeping community is divided on whether it’s a good idea to keep fish in an axolotl aquarium. Some are adamant ...

Axolotl embryos measure approximately 2–3 ... my senior research project was on the diets of forage fish in Lake Erie. As a graduate student at Kentucky State University in Frankfort, KY ...

Despite the creatures’ regenerative abilities, scientists are no longer finding them in their natural habitat of Xochimilco, ...

The big problem is that the nun’s species of axolotl only lives in nearby Lake Patzcuaro and it has been pushed to the edge of extinction because of pollution and introduced fish species.

But urban sprawl, contaminated water and non-native fish that like to eat young axolotls have led to the salamander’s near-total collapse, according to population surveys. The axolotl is not the ...