Discover strange facts about salamanders: axolotls, fire salamanders, hellbenders, newts, and the amphibians that regenerate limbs, organs, and even parts of
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
