For axolotls, it may take only a couple of days to regrow their tiny hands, but in a fully grown human, that process could take years, McCusker said. “It’s important that we continue to do ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Axolotls are known for their ability to grow back just about any body part that is bitten off by a predator, but the trigger for this ...

Axolotls, a scientific wonder with regeneration capabilities, are racing toward extinction. Ecologists are giving the public an opportunity to adopt them.

Axolotls are members of a class of animals called amphibians, which also includes frogs. Amphibians lay their jelly-like eggs in water, and the eggs hatch into water-dwelling larval states. (In ...

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 ...

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 ...

In other words, an injured axolotl hand knows not to grow into an arm partly because the enzyme, called CYP26B1, blocks the regeneration process from going further, McCusker explained.