The name axolotl comes from the Aztec god, Xolotl. Xolotl is the god of lightning, fire, and death. He’s often depicted with a dog’s head, but some stories say that he transformed into an ...

Axolotls are able to achieve this sort of regeneration ... The story begins with the Aztec God of death and lightning, the Xolotl. As legends have it, he was a monstrous dog that guarded the ...

Legend has it that their namesake — the Aztec god of fire and lightning, Xolotl — disguised himself as a salamander to avoid sacrifice. The axolotl is so culturally revered in Mexico that the ...

Scientists find rats’ brains ‘designed to respond well to music’ In Aztec legend, the desperate rebel god Xolotl transformed himself into an axolotl to hide and avoid being sacrificed by his ...