To help protect the salamander, the National Autonomous University of Mexico launched a campaign asking people to virtually adopt an axolotl or help pay for one of its meals.

WHEN I was in Mexico during the last summer, I naturally paid attention to the Axolotl question, a problem which in spite of, or perhaps because of, the various articles written on this subject ...

In hopes of preventing the annihilation of a species with mystifying traits, ecologists at Mexico’s National Autonomous University are giving the public the chance to virtually adopt an axolotl ...

THE fact that a diet of mammalian thyroid will induce frog-tadpoles to metamorphose precociously into the adult form is now well established. It is of some interest to find that this diet produces ...

From TikTok to McDonald’s Happy Meals, Mexico’s ancient axolotl is everywhere, except where it is supposed to be—in the wild.

The axolotl, with its permanent grin and youthful-looking body, has captured hearts thanks to TikTok and the popular video game Minecraft, which added the salamander to its universe in 2021.More ...

The dodo was wiped out no more than a century after the Dutch arrived. It's unclear exactly when because, at the time the dodo roamed the jungles of Mauritius, the idea that any animal might one ...

Brand axolotl has been bubbling for a couple of decades. The critters appear to have made their pop culture debut in 1999, when Pokémon introduced something like one as a pocket monster named Wooper.

The “genetic rescue” of Mauritius’ already vulnerable pink pigeon (Nesoenas mayeri) is a specific goal within the dodo “de-extinction” project.The pink pigeon was downgraded from being ...