I mean, at least give each other a chance.)īut the axolotls that emerge settle into life as adept bottom-dwelling predators. (They should consider themselves lucky, though: Sand tiger shark young actually eat each other in the womb. And that's how she picks up the spermatophore.” Once fertilized, the female can lay more than 1,000 eggs, which hatch into larvae that will, alas, inevitably eat each other. “It has a sperm packet on the very tip, and after laying that down he’ll walk up the body length, stop, and she'll find it and sit down on it and break off the sperm cap.
“It looks just like a Hershey kiss,” said Voss.
Scientists therefore reckon that the axolotl is hopelessly addicted to oxygen, more so than most critters. Because the axolotl never truly metamorphoses, it retains its frilly larval gills.
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