Have you ever seen a creature that seems to smile at you from behind the glass, with feathery gills waving like carnival ...

The famous pink axolotls, as well as other color variants such as white, blue, yellow and black, are genetic anomalies that are rare in the wild but selectively bred for in the pet trade.

The axolotl is a type of salamander. It has a long tail, flat head, and four lizard-like limbs, which it uses to move around the lake floor. But unlike other salamanders, axolotls are neotenic ...

Most axolotls are dark brown with some black speckling, but it’s common for them to have a white mutation or be albino as well. They have a long tail with short legs and feet, and a cute little ...

The axolotl, with its permanent grin and youthful-looking body, has captured hearts thanks to TikTok and the popular video game Minecraft, which added the salamander to its universe in 2021.More ...

For that reason, captive-bred axolotls—which are a light pink in color—are common research subjects for biologists, who have long been fascinated by their ability to defy aging. (Learn how you ...

But wild axolotls, endemic to a single lake in Mexico, are critically endangered due to degradation of their native wetlands, with only 50 to 1,000 individuals left in the wild.

The only way to save and study the wild axolotl, Dr. Zambrano and his colleagues determined, was to promote a renaissance of ancestral farming practices, and then convert segments of the farmers ...