In the 1970s, Zambrano said, the Mexican government introduced African tilapia and Asian carp into the lake in an effort to create fisheries, but the fish began eating the axolotl eggs and young.

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

Prayag Murawala, Ph.D., of the MDI Biological Laboratory in Bar Harbor, Maine, uses the axolotl, or Mexican salamander, to study tendon regeneration. The axolotl is considered nature's champion of ...

The Mexican Axolotl is one such creature known for regrowing its severed limbs. Researchers at the Research Institute of Molecular Pathology in Vienna found that inserting its gene into humans ...

Axolotls are native to Mexico City and live exclusively in two freshwater lakes. They're critically endangered due to habitat loss, with only a handful left in the wild, but they are bred in ...

A convent of Mexican nuns is helping to save one of the world’s most remarkable amphibians: the axolotl. Axolotls are able to regrow lost limbs and other body parts. As a result, these aquatic ...

The critically endangered axolotl—also known as the Mexican salamander—shares a type of cell, called a glial cell, with humans. If an axolotl hurts its spinal cord, its glial cells go to work ...

On this day in 1920, the Mexican government returned Lake Xochimilco back to the locals. Lake Xochimilco now serves as a recreational site, cultural attraction, and home to the rare axolotl species.

Axolotl (pronounced ah-sho-LO-tul ... To make this happen, it stores nutrients in the arm until it can regrow its mouth. The Mexican tetra is a river fish that can regenerate its heart tissue.

With an axolotl as the protagonist on one of its faces ... in the National Museum of Anthropology and was sculpted by the Mexican civilization, under the orders of Moctezuma II.