All images courtesy of Two Kids and a Coupon Axolotls are adorable! With their perpetually smiling faces, feathery gills, and charmingly plump bodies, axolotls have captured hearts worldwide.

MEXICO CITY — 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.