but notes that one of the main dragon characters in that film—named "Toothless"—has some suspicious similarities to the axolotl, from its endearing smile to the shape of its ears, which ...

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 ...

Thanks to social media, children across the United States are begging their parents to get them an exotic new pet. Axolotls, or Ambystoma mexicanum, are the new superstars of the amphibian world.

It is of some interest to find that this diet produces a similar effect in a form which usually does not metamorphose—the Axolotl ... while keeping its larval characters. Chief among these ...