All images courtesy of Two Kids and a Coupon Axolotls are adorable! With their perpetually smiling faces, feathery gills, and ...

Like many little kids, Zoë Auch Schleit has already been through many different phases in her young life. When she was 5, she loved the kids’ show Octonauts, and had an Octonaut-themed birthday party.

An axolotl (ax-a-lot-l) is a creature with big frilly gills like a lion’s mane, tiny eyes with no eyelids and a mouth in the shape of a smile. They come in lots of colors: pink, black, golden or gray.

Combining the kawaii appearance of a Pokémon character with the real-world appeal of cuddly creatures such as bunnies and kittens, axolotls are the breakout cuties of the past few years. The ...

Before axolotls were everywhere, the “It” stuffed animal was a sloth, and before that it was a llama, and before that it was a narwhal. Now there’s a new kid in town: the capybara. The South American ...