Axolotls, like this one at Pet Stop, are known for their feathery external gills. Generations of kids have begged for a cat or dog, but these days parents may be asked for an animal they have never ...

November, a rare salamander called an axolotl was rescued after being found swimming in Walnut Creek. On Nov. 15, local pet ...

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Pollution and other man-made ills weigh heavily on Mexico's axolotl. Its population in the wild has fallen by something like 99% in the past three decades, one expert said. Yet the axolotl has never ...

What’s native only to Mexico’s Lake Xochimilco, comes in rainbow colors and has a permanently thrilled expression? An axolotl, of course! It’s a species of salamander with distinctive exterior gills ...

“They’re here.” Those words were all That Fish Place/That Pet Place needed to post to set social media ablaze over the store’s first shipment of a trendy amphibian. “It’s been really cool to see ...