Axolotls are a type of salamander only found in waterways in Mexico City. The International Union for Conservation of Nature ...

Hundreds of years ago, when the Mexica established themselves in what would become the capital of the Aztec Empire, they encountered an alien-looking creature with a permanent grin and a crown of ...

Researchers at Harvard University’s Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology lab sure do axolotl questions. When Jessica Whited’s ...

Legend has it the axolotl was not always an amphibian. Long before it became Mexico’s most beloved salamander and efforts to prevent its extinction flourished, it was a sneaky god. “It’s an ...

Earlier this year, a Harvard research team studying the axolotl, a salamander with the superpower to regrow body parts, lost ...

While Camden's Adventure Aquarium has had the amphibians on display for years, this is the Philadelphia Zoo's first time housing the animals. Axolotls are native to Mexico City and live exclusively in ...