Axolotls can make good pets if you are interested in a calm, exotic-looking animal. Yet, if you want your pet to live the longest possible life, you must commit to a fair amount of maintenance.

Take one look at an axolotl, and it’s easy to see why it’s so popular. With their wide eyes, upturned mouths and pastel pink coloring, axolotls look cheerful and vaguely Muppet-like.

But wild axolotls, endemic to a single lake in Mexico, are critically endangered due to degradation of their native wetlands, with only 50 to 1,000 individuals left in the wild.

The Axolotl has a 6.66% chance of causing summer plants to remain after being collected. While this ability does sound good, it's only really useful if you've got a lot of summer plants growing in ...

My kids are coming home with axolotl toys all the time, because people know what I do.” These glowing axolotls may hold the secret to human limb regeneration© Alyssa Stone/Northeastern University ...

For axolotls, it may take only a couple of days to regrow their tiny hands, but in a fully grown human, that process could take years, McCusker said. “It’s important that we continue to do ...

Save the axolotl: Urgent "Adoptaxolotl" campaign begins in Mexico Here's how to "adopt an axolotl" — or buy it dinner and help fix its adorable little house By Rae Hodge ...

In other words, an injured axolotl hand knows not to grow into an arm partly because the enzyme, called CYP26B1, blocks the regeneration process from going further, McCusker explained.