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

Here's everything you need to know about the Mexican axolotl salamander — from organ regeneration and conservation efforts, to cultural mystique.

Animals These glowing axolotls may hold the secret to human limb regeneration The adorable salamanders are helping scientists investigate a serious question: Could the human body be coaxed to ...

Axolotls can regrow limbs. Could they one day help us do the same? A better understanding of how these amphibians grow new appendages may lead to better wound healing—or even new limbs—in humans.

Amphibians like axolotls are among the most threatened by climate change, but knowing more about what they need to survive in their preferred surroundings can help conservation efforts.

These glow-in-the-dark axolotls can regrow lost limbs — and studying them could eventually help humans do the same.

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.

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.

Northeastern biologists find secret to limb regeneration in the axolotl salamander, a ‘superstar of cuteness’ ...

Researchers are studying axolotls -- "small, smiling salamanders" -- in the hopes of learning how humans might one day regrow arms or legs.

These glow-in-the-dark axolotls can regrow lost limbs — and scientists say studying them could eventually help humans do the same.