a chain of nearly 500 stores that offers an expanding menagerie of animals and characters for customers to customize, including capybaras and axolotls. The St. Louis-based company watches social ...

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 ...

A convent of Mexican nuns is helping to save one of the world’s most remarkable amphibians: the axolotl. Axolotls are able to regrow lost limbs and other body parts. As a result, these aquatic ...

You may have come across axolotls – those smiling amphibians with pink, plume-like gills – in pet stores, as plush toys, or even featured in video games. Yet, their growing presence in popular culture ...

The entire stock of modern axolotls found in today's laboratory settings—and in pet shops around the world—is descended from that original population collected in 1864, with only occasional ...

Saving the axolotl But if axolotls are so widely available in both commercial pet stores and laboratory environments, why not simply reintroduce them to the wild? Monaghan says it's not that ...

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 ...

The axolotl (ACK-suh-LAH-tuhl) is the Peter Pan of salamanders. While most amphibians grow out of their aquatic phase to begin their lives on land, the axolotl largely retains its larval ...

Axolotl (pronounced ah-sho-LO-tul ... To make this happen, it stores nutrients in the arm until it can regrow its mouth. The Mexican tetra is a river fish that can regenerate its heart tissue.