About an inch and a half long, the animal was a salamander with an oddly-shaped tongue. It was described as a species new to science. Bolitoglossa digitigrada, or the Rio Santa Rosa mushroom ...

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 ...