Friday, January 30, 2009

ooh! i want one!

Here is an animal I learned about from my morning crossword:
Lovely Sally, by Only Alice
It is an axolotl, a type of Mexican salamander commonly used in research because of its ability to regrow limbs. It is also remarkable in that it exhibits neoteny -- instead of metamorphosing from larva to adult, it spends its whole life in larval form. I guess that is why it is so cutesy-wutesy :). 

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