A Mexican amphibian, the axolotl is believed by many to be the Aztec god of fire and lightning. His name was Xolotl, and he ...

Axolotl embryos measure approximately 2–3 ... my senior research project was on the diets of forage fish in Lake Erie. As a graduate student at Kentucky State University in Frankfort, KY ...

The axolotl-keeping community is divided on whether it’s a good idea to keep fish in an axolotl aquarium. Some are adamant ...

In the wild, they eat worms, mollusks, crustaceans, fish and insect larvae. One fun fact about the axolotl is that after birth, they will sometimes snack on their siblings’ limbs. This might sou ...

We observed phase-bright inclusions, plaques, and cell lysis indicating the presence of ranavirus in the cell cultures from seven of the eight affected axolotls and one unaffected animal.

The big problem is that the nun’s species of axolotl only lives in nearby Lake Patzcuaro and it has been pushed to the edge of extinction because of pollution and introduced fish species.

In reality, there are really only between 50 and 1,000 axolotls in the wild. That might be a shocking fact considering there are a bazillion of these sweet, smiling salamanders living on stickers ...

Today’s Google Doodle is a celebration of Lake Xochimilco, a natural lake near Mexico City that also happens to be the last remaining habitat for the axolotls—a species related to the salamander.