LJS if you use the same stone I guess it could be a reference. Unless you are stoned that is
Axolotols are endangered in the wild due to global warming, the hole in the ozone layer as well as pollution. They only occur in certain lakes high up in the mountains where is stays cool and gets cold in winter. The water is warming up, being polluted and receiving far more ultra violet radiation than in the past.
They stay and reproduce in the larval stage but can be convinced to turn into salamanders. In the wild they would probably dry out and not be able to survive so now, unlike other salamanders, they become sexually mature before metamorphosis has taken place.
Because they are still "larvae" they can regenerate limbs like other tadpole stages of similar amphibians but who lose that ability when they become mature.
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