Could an aquarium pet that's now embedded in modern pop culture be the answer to regrowing severed human limbs? Scientists ...

The adorable salamanders are helping scientists investigate a serious question: Could the human body be coaxed to regrow a ...

While most amphibians undergo metamorphosis—transforming from ... It’s as if Peter Pan himself designed a salamander that refused to grow old, embracing perpetual childhood with every fiber ...

Newts, which are a semiaquatic type of salamander, are like most other amphibians in that they undergo metamorphosis. But unlike their relatives, newts are capable of repeated limb regeneration ...

Salamanders, like frogs and toads, are amphibians. This means they lead "double lives" spending their early existence as aquatic larvae which undergo metamorphosis, transforming into land-based ...

Giant Salamanders Don’t Fully Metamorphose Most amphibians have biphasic life cycles, meaning they start out as water-dwelling larvae and eventually undergo metamorphosis, swapping their gills and ...

Since then, scientists around the world have studied axolotls and their DNA to learn about the salamanders’ unusual metamorphosis (or lack thereof) as well as their ability to regrow injured ...

The axolotl are naturally neotenic, meaning they don't undergo metamorphosis to reach adulthood ... similar to their close relative, the tiger salamander, but they continue to only breed ...

Read on to find out more about these characterful creatures. The axolotl, Ambystoma mexicanum, is a type of salamander that doesn't go through metamorphosis. Salamanders are amphibians that, like ...

They are one of the few cave salamanders to undergo complete metamorphosis from an aquatic larvae to a land-dwelling adult. After metamorphosis, adults are completely blind, yet they can feed on ...