Using environmental DNA analysis and traditional fishing techniques, researchers are seeking answers about the current ...

(bright music) - This maze of canals is one of the last remnants of a lake system that ... and save the last wild axolotls of Mexico City. (gentle music) Xochimilco is a bustling borough in ...

Axolotls are a type of salamander native to Mexico. In recent years, they have risen to popularity due to their inclusion in ...

Legend has it that, long before the axolotl became ... is all that's left from the lake city of Mexico-Tenochtitlan, so I always tell our visitors that Xochimilco is a living archeological ...

In the last big survey of axolotls in Xochimilco in 2014, they numbered no more than 35 per square kilometer, down from 6,000 in 1998. Mexican researchers said a new survey, due this summer ...

Its exhibitions focus on axolotl and chinampas, the pre-Hispanic agricultural systems resembling floating gardens that still function in Xochimilco, a neighborhood on Mexico City’s outskirts fam ...

Through the glass of a fish tank, where academic institutions preserve them and hatcheries put them up for sale, axolotl are hard to spot. Their skin is usually dark to mimic ston ...

XOCHIMILCO, Mexico—A homely aquatic salamander ... Fortnite and Pokémon and inspiring a McDonald’s Happy Meal toy. Where the axolotl can barely be found: in its natural habitat in Mexico.