The white axolotl, which seems to be "pretty much every stuffed animal that's out there," is "actually a mutation of a single animal that was collected in 1864." "You can get color variants ...

Developmental biologists, neurobiologists, and amphibian research scientists find the axolotl an excellent animal model for their research. Not only are axolotls easy to handle, but females ...

According to Mori, many pink- and white-colored axolotls distributed in Japan and elsewhere have been genetically modified for ornamental purposes. Wild ones are typically dark-colored.