In 2024, a set of images purportedly showing giant axolotl-like creatures circulated online. Two of the images showed men ...

The axolotl has a deeper story: as its presence grows in pop culture, the wild population of only one lake hovers on the ...

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You may have seen axolotls—an amphibian in the salamander family with a permanent smile and pink, feathery gills—in a pet ...

Unfortunately, they are now critically endangered in the one place they naturally inhabit. It's also illegal to own these ...

James Monaghan, a biology professor at Northeastern University, has long studied axolotls and their extraordinary ...

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