Show HAS A CURIOUS transformation the axolotl becomes another animal in certain lc cities naturalists Natural Natura lats lists have long been familiar with a newt like creature breathing by gills and lungs both and inhabiting the lakes of mexico and other american waters this Is the axolotl it was also alao discovered that in certain localities this creature which by the way any bleeds freely in mexico sheds its skin casts off its gills and its tall tail fin develops another color of 0 body and leaves the water to become a land newt under this latter guise it is known as the naturally the explanation of this curious transformation rests on the fact that the axolotl is really the oung or tadpole stage of the form but the peculiarity here la Is that in its first stage it should bleed and multiply and continue to reproduce as it if it were N ere a perfectly mature animal the occurrence of such cases points out to us one way in which species can be evolved tor for had bad we not been acquainted with the relationship of these forms nobody would have hesitated to describe them as two tao essentially distinct animals lately it has been shown says the london chronicle that while in colorado and dakota the transformation is complete in mexico the axolotl stage staga la Is apparently permanent here probably the influence of environment on a living being Is topically illustrated |