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

If an axolotl doesn’t get adequate nutrition, it may resort to eating its tankmates’ limbs as a snack. While axolotls can ...

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 ...

MEXICO CITY, Mexico — 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 ...