Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. The Axolotl (pronounced ACK-suh-LAH-tuhl) salamander only lives (in the wild) in one ...

Scientists have decoded the genome of the axolotl, the Mexican amphibian with a Mona Lisa smile. It has 32 billion base pairs, which makes it 10 times the size of the human genome, and the largest ...

Cute story about 6-year-old Marianne Cullen of Springfield donating $1,000 to Harvard because “they were trying to help the ...

This rare Axolotl salamander has a reason to smile after he was welcomed by visitors as the star attraction at the Aquaria Fun Park in Austria. Unlike his relatives he has not ended up struggling to ...