The Brookfield Zoo took in 20 rescued axolotls last year after they were confiscated by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service as ...

Axolotls are endangered amphibians that can regrow their body parts. While some people have them as pets, they are found in two lakes in Mexico. Photo Credit: iStock/Getty Images Axolotls may look a ...

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 ...

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 ...