Axolotls: The Super-Healing Smilers | Calm Bedtime Science for Kids & Adults

This is the very first Bedtime Scientist episode, the one where the whole show began. Drift along with us as we learn about neoteny, the rare biological process that lets axolotls stay forever young, keeping their feathery gills and their soft underwater bodies even as they grow. Discover their astonishing power of regeneration, the way they can regrow a leg, a tail, parts of the heart, even portions of the brain, all without leaving a scar behind. And float through the still, sunlit waters of Lake Xochimilco, the only place in the wild where these gentle amphibians have ever lived. It's a story about staying small, healing slowly, and the quiet kind of wonder that science can hold when you stop to really look.

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