Axolotls lived happily for a long time in Lake Texcoco, overlooked by the smouldering volcano, ... Jazwares now makes 30 kinds of axolotl Squishmallow and puts them on t-shirts, ...

Juan Carlos Domínguez, a Xochimilco native, wears an axolotl shirt to a cyclists’ protest against a highway bridge; a mural in Xochimilco depicts the shape-shifting Nahua god Xolotl, ...

First, it was narwhals. Then, llamas. Now, axolotls are coming for America’s children. The salamanders are the hottest creature in kids’ departments this winter. Children can dress plush ...

The axolotl (pronounced ah-SHO-lohtl) is hurtling toward extinction, just as it becomes globally familiar with a cottage industry using its image to sell beer, T-shirts and videogames.