Imagine a creature so magical it seems ripped from the pages of a fantasy novel—a being that never truly ages, can regrow lost limbs, and even rebuilds its brain. Meet the axolotl, a rare and ...

An axolotl-loving 6-year-old got the Christmas of her dreams, all thanks to her mom. Lauren, on TikTok @ the_stayathomemomma , tells PEOPLE that she put a lot of thought into getting her daughter ...

The dodo is one of the most iconic—and misunderstood—extinct animals. Four hundred years after its extinction, the popular narrative remains that the flightless bird was simply too dumb, slow ...

The axolotl is in danger of extinction in its natural habitat, the canals in the Mexico City borough of Xochimilco. Photo: Vincent Isore/Zuma Press.

The dodo wasn’t as daffy a duck as we once thought. Despite their dim reputation, evolutionary biologists have learned that the infamously extinct bird, hunted out of existence by humans in the ...

MEXICO CITY, Mexico — Legend has it the axolotl was not always an amphibian. Long before it became Mexico’s most beloved salamander and efforts to prevent its extinction flourished, it was a ...

But the dodo-as-warning idea took hold at this time, too. In 1874, Charles Darwin and his scientific colleagues cited the dodo in a plea to Mauritius’s colonial governor to save local tortoises.

An axolotl, a type of salamander that's become a pop culture phenomenon, is now on display at the Philadelphia Zoo. The creatures are a favorite among kids after they were introduced in the video ...

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Legend has it the axolotl was not always an amphibian. Long before it became Mexico’s most beloved salamander and efforts to prevent its extinction flourished, it was a ...

The dodo was a flightless bird about the size of a male turkey that had a long, hooked beak and the goofy charm of an emperor penguin. Its ancestor first appeared on Earth more than 25 million ...