THE fact that a diet of mammalian thyroid will induce frog-tadpoles to metamorphose precociously into the adult ... metamorphose—the Axolotl. This is the larva of a salamander known as ...

managed to escape death by turning himself into a salamander. And that creature came to be known as the axolotl. In ancient Aztec tongue, the name 'Axolotl' translates to "water monster," and just ...

This collection of axolotl salamanders has become the ... to modify their bodies to suit life on land. But not all salamanders mature into land-dwelling animals, and axolotls are one example.