James Monaghan, a biology professor at Northeastern University, has long studied axolotls and their extraordinary ...

"Minecraft is enormously popular ... Monaghan also thinks that children's animation has had something to do with the rise of the axolotl's stardom. "I don't know if it's actually the motivation ...

The axolotl has a deeper story: as its presence grows in pop culture, the wild population of only one lake hovers on the ...

The New Jersey preschooler’s favorite animal is the axolotl, an amphibian that grows ... spike in popularity in 2021 after the video game “Minecraft” introduced them to the platform.

According to Google Trends, searches for axolotls shot up in June 2021 after Minecraft added them to its game. “Nobody knew what an axolotl was in 2020,” Derr said. “Now, everybody knows ...