Two colors

Axolotls originally live in the deep lakes of Mexico, in fresh water. However, human activity has drained many of these lakes, seriously threatening axolotls in the wild. Pollution of their water is also a major threat. In fact, axolotls need very pure water to reproduce. In the wild, axolotls are brown or black so they can camouflage themselves well on the bottom, pink or albino axolotls are basically found only in captivity.

Never mature

Axolotls spend their entire lives in a larval stage and thus never become adults, which is quite special. You can tell this by the red gills hanging on the outside of their heads. Axolotls also have the ability to regrow limbs they have lost. Axolotls can lay as many as hundreds of eggs at one time. These are deposited against aquatic plants and continue to develop in the water until there are young axolotls. Axolotls, unlike other salamander species, always stay in the water; you will never encounter them on land!