Axolotl: Incredible Regenerative Abilities
Axolotls regenerate limbs, heart tissue, and parts of their brain with no scarring. Expert guide to how this salamander cheats biology and what it means for medicine.
September 2025
Salamanders and Newts: Regenerative Masters
Explore the remarkable world of salamanders and newts, from axolotls that regrow entire limbs and organs to giant salamanders reaching 1.8 meters, and discover how regeneration science could transform human medicine.
August 2025
Axolotl: Biology and Unmatched Regeneration
Everything about the axolotl: biology, habitat, regeneration, neoteny, conservation, laboratory research, and the strange facts that make Ambystoma mexicanum the most studied salamander on Earth.
June 2025
Fire Salamander: Legendary Amphibian Characteristics
Everything about the fire salamander: size, habitat, toxic skin, live birth, regeneration, conservation, and the strange facts that make Salamandra salamandra one of Europe's most legendary amphibians.
May 2025
Hellbender Salamander: Conservation of a Giant
Everything about the hellbender: the largest salamander in North America. Size, cold-stream habitat, cutaneous respiration, crayfish diet, male nest guarding, 55-year lifespan, and the Ozark subspecies conservation crisis.
March 2025
Chinese Giant Salamander: Largest Amphibian
Everything about the Chinese giant salamander: the largest amphibian on Earth, its infant-like cries, 170-million-year lineage, cutaneous respiration, farmed hybrid crisis, and the 2018 discovery that it is actually at least five cryptic species - most already lost from the wild.