Imagine a creature so magical it seems ripped from the pages of a fantasy novel—a being that never truly ages, can regrow ...

One of the world’s most endangered amphibians – the primordial and fish-like axolotl – has successfully adapted to a new ...

When we are injured, a wound from a severed limb simply gets covered with skin tissue. But not the axolotls. They transform nearby cells to stem cells, forming bones, skins, and veins in their ...

Through the glass of a fish tank, where academic institutions preserve them and hatcheries put them up for sale, axolotl are hard to spot. Their skin is usually dark to mimic stones — though an ...

The healing powers of the primitive not only act as a defence mechanism, they also help them stay alive and ahead when it ...

With its goggling eyes and signature smiley face, the axolotl became Japan's favorite water creature after it was featured in a TV ad in the 1980s. At iZoo, a facility in Kawazu, Shizuoka ...