A group of students has been trying to get the state to recognize the blue-spotted salamander for years. Here's why.

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. The Axolotl (pronounced ACK-suh-LAH-tuhl) salamander only lives (in the wild ...

If the lawmakers favor the blue spotted salamander, Massachusetts would be the first to designate it as a state icon. High school senior Sriniketh Velagapudi of Andover also testified in support ...

From Quanta Magazine (find original story here). In a loudly bubbling laboratory at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, about 2,800 of the salamanders called axolotls drift in tanks and cups ...

Here are some things to know about the elusive salamander, ... Indiana's largest salamander, found only in 70-mile span of Blue River. ... It’s not a fuzzy, cute and cuddly creature, ...

It's a blue spotted salamander black body with bluish gray spots, smudges on the side. It's relatively common in the Great Lakes region, especially where there's rich soil, ...

That's 10% to 20% of the park's blue-spotted salamander population, according to Bieri's research – an alarming number that risks permanently depleting the park's population, he said.