"We had family over yesterday and she was so happy to show him off and tell everyone the facts she’s been learning about axolotls. She named him Sushi but said, 'Promise me we won’t eat him.' ...

You may have seen axolotls—an amphibian in the salamander family with a permanent smile and pink, feathery gills—in a pet store or as a plushie in a window, but the endearing animal's ...

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

But the axolotl is only the latest creature to charm kids and mystify ... The animated television show “Bluey,” for example, ...

And that creature came to be known as the axolotl. In ancient Aztec tongue, the name 'Axolotl' translates to "water monster," and just as their name suggests, these creatures live their entire ...

Yet the axolotl has become an improbable global megastar. Shops are crowded with cuddly axolotls. Toy axolotls fall out of McDonald’s Happy Meals. Axolotl-themed clothes, jewellery and Christmas ...

“Some animals in the family Ambystomidae have to leave the water, partly because the wetland they live in dries out during the dry season,” Zambrano says, adding that there is speculation that one ...

After studying the axolotl for 8 years, researchers are developing a line of cosmeceutical and over-the-counter products ...

In fact, Monaghan says, axolotls are "the longest standing lab animal of any animal, longer than flies, longer than worms, longer than mice." The first scientific specimens were collected in 1864 ...