MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s salamander-like axolotl may have disappeared from its only known natural habitat in Mexico City’s few remaining lakes. It’s disturbing news for an admittedly ugly creature, ...

In the murky waters of pre-Columbian canals in southern Mexico City lurks a creature that’s seemingly straight out of ancient mythology: the Mexican salamander, or “Axolotl.” Named after a godlike ...

Academics in Mexico City are asking for donations to protect axolotls, an iconic fish-like type of salamander. The campaign asks people for as little as 600 pesos to virtually adopt one of the tiny ...

An Axolotl salamander, or Ambystoma mexicanum, swims in a tank at the Chapultepec Zoo in Mexico City. Scientists warn that the amphibian is just a few years away from extinction.

MEXICO CITY — Ecologists from Mexico's National Autonomous university have relaunched a fundraising campaign to bolster conservation efforts for axolotls, an iconic, endangered fishlike type of ...