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  2. Axolotl - Wikipedia

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    The axolotl is unusual in that it has a lack of thyroid-stimulating hormone, which is needed for the thyroid to produce thyroxine in order for the axolotl to go through metamorphosis; it keeps its gills and lives in water all its life, even after it becomes an adult and is able to reproduce. Neoteny is the term for reaching sexual maturity ...

  3. Why axolotls seem to be everywhere — except in the one lake ...

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    The introduction of axolotls to Minecraft in 2021 neatly mapped onto an uptick in Google searches for the animals, and social media makes it easy for people to gain access to photos and videos of ...

  4. Why Axolotls are Slowly Disappearing

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    The axolotl can grow up to 12 inches and weigh anywhere from three to eight pounds, and its average lifespan in the wild is 10-15 years. Most axolotls are dark brown with some black speckling, but ...

  5. Lake Xochimilco - Wikipedia

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    Lake Xochimilco, in a detail from the 1847 Bruff/Disturnell map The Valley of Mexico at the time of the Spanish conquest, c. 1519. Lake Xochimilco (Spanish pronunciation: [sotʃiˈmilko]; Nahuatl languages: Xōchimīlco, pronounced [ʃoːtʃiˈmiːlko] listen ⓘ) is an ancient endorheic lake, located in the present-day Borough of Xochimilco in southern Mexico City.

  6. List of animals in the Galápagos Islands - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of animals that live in the Galápagos Islands.The fauna of the Galápagos Islands include a total of 9,000 confirmed species. Of them, none have been introduced by humans, and seventeen are endemic.

  7. 'Adopt an axolotl' campaign launches in Mexico to save iconic ...

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    While scientists could once find 6,000 axolotls on average per square kilometer in Mexico, there are now only 36, according to the National Autonomous university’s latest census.

  8. External gills - Wikipedia

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    The axolotl has three pairs of external gills. This type of gill is most commonly observed on the aquatic larva of most species of salamanders, lungfish, and bichirs (which have only one large pair), and are retained by neotenic adult salamanders and some species of adult lungfish.

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