While visiting family in Philadelphia, Alejandra Ramos González, an ecologist at the Universidad Autónoma de Baja California in Mexico (UNAM) who studies the amphibians, even gave axolotl talks to ...

For years, axolotls swam in the freshwaters of Lake Chalco and Lake Xochimilco in Mexico. The amphibians, which are part of the salamander family, were so abundant in the area that they even played a ...

Axolotls can regenerate optic nerves, retinas, and parts of their brain. Provost's Undergraduate Research Award-winner Ted ...

Scientist Dr. Randal Voss gets the occasional reminder that he’s working with a kind of superstar. When he does outreach events with his laboratory, he encounters people who are keen to meet his ...

The amphibian that never grew up is on the verge of going extinct in the wild. New survey work suggests that fewer than 1,200 Mexican axolotls remain in its last stronghold, the Xochimilco area of ...

Axolotls are everywhere online due to their popularity on TikTok and in Minecraft, but they aren’t very common in the wild. The salamanders are native only to Lake Xochimilco in Xochimilco, Mexico ...

Ari Shapiro has been one of the hosts of All Things Considered, NPR's flagship afternoon newsmagazine, since 2015. He has been a question on Jeopardy and an answer in the New York Times crossword ...

The axolotl (Ambystoma mexicanum) fell into mythology centuries ago; the Aztecs believed that the first axolotl appeared in the lake system around modern day Mexico City when the powerful underworld ...

Ten years after a massive dam removal, salmon are returning to the Elwha River. ♪ ♪ [man speaking Spanish] ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ NARRATOR: Mexico City is home to over 20 million people-- a megacity ...