io9: MEXICO TINY WATER MONSTER MAY BE EXTINCT full article link - great picture!
...The iconic axolotl — a salamander-like creature capable of extraordinary regenerative abilities — has disappeared from its only known natural habitat in Mexico's few remaining lakes...
Biologist Luis Zambrano of Mexico's National Autonomous University says the most recent three-month attempt to net axolotls found not one of the creatures. He says researchers are planning a second three-month hunt for the creatures, which still survive in labs and breeding tanks...
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SIREN HERE : THE AXOLOTL does exist in tanks if not the wild. The question I have is, will this species ever be able to live in the wild again anywhere?
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