In a given run, you might stumble across a baby axolotl in need of protection. Gather them up, and you'll send them home, where you'll need to nurture them - feeding, changing, and burping them.

As an ecologist, Zambrano never entertained any strategy to save the axolotl that did not involve first restoring its habitat. But “this isn’t the middle of Borneo or the great plains of the ...

6. Axolotls have become increasingly popular in recent years. James Monaghan, professor of biology at Northeastern, said that he used to have to explain what axolotls were approximately 20 years ago.

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.