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The internet’s favorite salamander, only found in the wild in Mexico’s Lake Xochimilco, is critically endangered. Here’s how people are fighting to save them.

The axolotl is a type of salamander. It has a long tail, flat head, and four lizard-like limbs, which it uses to move around the lake floor. But unlike other salamanders, axolotls are neotenic ...

The feathery gilled pink salamanders stop aging early and can regenerate their limbs. Studying them could be the next step in the journey to unlocking effective anti-aging treatments in humans.

On the outskirts of Mexico City, biologists are working to reintroduce a treasured amphibian to the wild. But first they must revive an ancient method of farming.

The cartoonish-looking salamanders have faced an uncertain future in the wild. But researchers hope that breeding axolotls in captivity and releasing them in the wild can help their numbers.

Using environmental DNA analysis and traditional fishing techniques, researchers are seeking answers about the current population of axolotls in their habitat. The numbers are alarming.

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.

Axolotls can regrow limbs. Could they one day help us do the same? A better understanding of how these amphibians grow new appendages may lead to better wound healing—or even new limbs—in humans.

Scientists have now sequenced the genome of the Mexican axolotl, and have identified a few key genes hidden amongst its extremely complex genetic blueprint that shed some light on its remarkable ...