Everyone who knows her, knows she loves them," the mom shares. When she heard about a pet shop with axolotls nearby, Lauren decided to give more consideration to letting her 6-year-old have one ...

Yet the axolotl has become an improbable global megastar. Shops are crowded with cuddly axolotls. Toy axolotls fall out of McDonald’s Happy Meals. Axolotl-themed clothes, jewellery and Christmas ...

Saving the axolotl But if axolotls are so widely available in both commercial pet stores and laboratory environments, why not simply reintroduce them to the wild? Monaghan says it's not that ...