The Axolotl

I've never met an axolotl
But Harvard has one in a bottle
Perhaps - and at the thought I shiver -
The very villain from Fall River
Where Lizzie Borden took an axolotl
And gave her mother forty whaxolotl.

Wrote Ogden Nash, the man who also observed that although you are only young once, you can stay immature indefinitely (rather like the axolotl). Unlike the axolotl and its batrachian brethren you probably can't regenerate a lost limb, though.

Image courtesy of the RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology

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