Two Mazama newts, an endangered species naturally found only in Crater Lake, have laid eggs at the Oregon Zoo’s conservation lab in Portland.

SPONTANEOUS and artificially induced neoteny are well known in Amphibia, and full sexual maturity appears to be attained by the parr stage of Salmo salar. But, so far as I am aware, neoteny has never ...

A critically endangered Mexican axolotl has been found in a Welsh river by a 10-year-old girl, marking the first documented discovery of the species in the wild in the United Kingdom. Only 50 to 1,000 ...

Critically endangered axolotls that were captive-bred then released into wetlands in Mexico City have successfully adapted to the wild, a new study has found, giving new hope to scientists trying to ...

We aren’t the only species on this planet that have domesticated another species. There is one kind of ancient ant that herds and cares for insect aphids in order to milk them of honeydew sugar. But ...

Imagine if humans lived forever in a larval state, as if we were a constant fetus. We would be short and have small hands, very small feet and little hair. If a leg were cut off, we could regenerate ...

Transforming colleges into true incubators of adulthood, helping students not just to learn, but to grow into capable, resilient and self-aware individuals. Aging faculty always quip that students are ...

SAN DIEGO — The new giant pandas make their public debut Thursday at the San Diego Zoo and police are anticipating such huge crowds that they’ve issued a traffic alert for the area. So what is it ...

The mechanisms underlying intellectual disabilities or autism remain largely unknown. Researchers in the labs of Prof. Pierre Vanderhaeghen and Prof. Vincent Bonin at the VIB-KU Leuven Center for ...

The adult Anderson's salamander, exclusive to Lake Zacapú, Mexico, is a neotenic mole salamander. Its delicate feathery gills and the fin tracing its tail are hallmark features observed in aquatic ...

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