Among the first modern zoo animals, 34 axolotls were brought from Mexico (along with three deer and three wild dogs) to the ...

Meanwhile, the wild population of axolotls is steadily vanishing. "Maybe up to the 1950s, you could put a net in Lake Xochimilco, the canal system, and pull up adult axolotls. And then every ...

Despite the creatures’ regenerative abilities, scientists are no longer finding them in their natural habitat of Xochimilco, ...

According to Mori, many pink- and white-colored axolotls distributed in Japan and elsewhere have been genetically modified for ornamental purposes. Wild ones are typically dark-colored.

It is dwindling in the wild because of serious threats to its natural habitat. For decades, researchers have marvelled at how the axolotl can regenerate amputated limbs, damaged body tissue ...

A few canals here are also the last refuge of another species known as the Mexican axolotl. This species is even closer to extinction in the wild – there may be as few as 500 left. Paradoxically ...

All animals that exhibited these signs died within one to five days. Following the introduction in late 1994 of wild axolotls from Lake Xochimilco, our colony had undergone a similar disease ...