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CONSERVATION STATUS: Critically endangered. ICUN Red List. Primary threats include pollution and tourism contributing to additional pollution.
Axolotl adults can regenerate up to 20% of their organ mass within two months, without scarring.
Recently, a team led by JAX Professor and Scientific Director Nadia Rosenthal, Ph.D., F.Med.Sci., and Research Scientist James Godwin, Ph.D., explored the role of the immune response in heart regeneration in the axolotl (salamander).
Argentinian novelist Julio Cortazar memorialized the magic of the axolotl in the following short story (1956), translated into English.
http://southerncrossreview.org/73/axolotl.html
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