Twelve-year-old Connor Dailey of Decatur has created a series of video cartoons about a popular salamander that already has ...

In 2024, a set of images purportedly showing giant axolotl-like creatures circulated online. Two of the images showed men ...

An axolotl in captivity. Despite its growing presence in pop culture, the axolotl is a critically endangered species. Mutantrainbow Public domain via Wikimedia Commons All it takes is a simple Google ...

You may have come across axolotls – those smiling amphibians with pink, plume-like gills – in pet stores, as plush toys, or even featured in video games. Yet, their growing presence in popular culture ...

Yet the axolotl has become an improbable global megastar. Shops are crowded with cuddly axolotls. Toy axolotls fall out of McDonald’s Happy Meals. Axolotl-themed clothes, jewellery and Christmas ...

“You see this across school communities. If one kid brings in a special interest in an animal like the axolotl, in the next ...

Last year, it was the axolotl that took pride of place on many products, and the endangered amphibian remains popular. Owls, hedgehogs, foxes and sloths also had recent turns in the spotlight.

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. The capybara – a South American relative of the guinea pig -- is the latest in a long line of “it ...

Here are the top cool math games for 2024 that are generating buzz among educators and parents alike. In terms of entertainment, interactive math games no longer function simply as educational tools; ...

There’s also an edge — which is exactly what attracts the cool crowd. It’s got port city grit. Those 18th-century stone facades are plastered in graffiti, the backdrop noise is the thrum of ...

Saving the axolotl But if axolotls are so widely available in both commercial pet stores and laboratory environments, why not simply reintroduce them to the wild? Monaghan says it's not that ...