Once a mainstay on the banquet tables of Aztec kings, in 1998 there were about 6,000 axolotls per square kilometer in the salamander's main redoubt, the waterways of the city's Xochimilco district ...

Mexico's axolotl salamander can almost magically heal itself, holding the power to regrow its heart and brain. But there is one feat it may not pull off: survive dire threats to the last wild ...

Mexico City: Mexico's axolotl salamander can almost magically heal itself, holding the power to regrow its heart and brain. But there is one feat it may not pull off: survive dire threats to the ...

Axolotls have appeared in Diego Rivera's murals and Pokemonvideo games. They even helped inspire the look of the maincharacter Toothless in DreamWorks Animation's hit "How to TrainYour Dragon" movies.