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This Incredible Creature Can Regenerate Its Brain, Heart, And Limbs
yt.revvy.de*Editor's note: Dr. James Godwin is now a research scientist at MDI Biological Laboratory.*
The story begins with the Aztec God of death and lightning, the Xolotl. As legends have it, he was a monstrous dog that guarded the sun god and ushered souls to the underworld every night. One day, as Gods began sacrificing each other for the newly created sun, Xolotl, a master transformer, managed to escape death by turning himself into a salamander. And that creature came to be known as the axolotl.
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It’s because they’re all juvenile though. They actually don’t produce a hormone needed for proper growth and that’s why they look the way they do. They are supposed to go through another stage of growth, and their appearance and existence is because of a genetic birth defect.
So would it be possible to make one grow up by giving them hormones? And what would it look like?
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They can force them to change with a shot of iodine and they apparently look like Tiger Salamanders.
https://gizmodo.com/scientists-show-that-peter-pan-grows-up-with-a-shot-of-5826750
Interesting. But whoever wrote the article should have gone for pictures 😁
How do they reproduce then?
Simple. They don’t have to be adults to reproduce. Wasn’t there a pregnant 2 year old girl at some point?