As axolotls have become popular, humans have increasingly adopted them as pets — often bred to be an albino white-pink that humans find more adorable than their wild counterparts’ murky gray ...

But wild axolotls, endemic to a single lake in Mexico, are critically endangered due to degradation of their native wetlands, with only 50 to 1,000 individuals left in the wild.

As popular as they are, you will rarely see pink or white axolotls (known as leucistic) in the wild. Most axolotls in the wild are a mix of brown, black, gray, and green, a coloring known as ...

An axolotl crawling up to the aquarium pane at the Hamburg animal shelter. ... Now, a new study of 18 captive-bred axolotls found that they can survive in some wild wetlands in Mexico.

Axolotls (pronounced ak·suh·laa·tls) are aquatic salamanders that are found in the wild in only one place, Lake Xochimilco in Mexico City. These critically endangered amphibians are also ...

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with scientist Alejandra Ramos, who just led a study about axolotls born in captivity who were released into the wild and survived. We've got some good news for axolotls ...

Despite their popularity, axolotls are critically endangered in the wild due to human interference and pollution in their habitats, with estimates of just 50 to 1,000 adults left in the wild.

Axolotls, once common throughout Xochimilco, are now rare in the wild. But there aren’t any here today. Mendez-Rosas, the farmer, says that fishermen used to cast a net and catch 40 at a time.

By 2004, that figure had fallen to just 1,000, and by 2008 it was only 100. A 2014 census of Mexico’s wild axolotl population found only 36 of the creatures. Now, ...

Endangered axolotls bred in captivity can survive in wild, study finds The findings could aid conservation efforts for the beloved species, which is found in only one Mexico City lake. April 30, 2025 ...