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Scientists from a university are filtering Mexico City’s waters for traces of the DNA of an endangered salamander, the axolotl. These unique salamanders, once abundant in the city’s borough of Xochimilco, are now nearly impossible to find in the wild. Researchers collect water samples and filter them for environmental DNA…
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Scientists search for DNA of an endangered salamander in Mexico City’s canals
By MARIA VERZA Associated Press
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Scientists from a university are filtering Mexico City’s waters for traces of the DNA of an endangered salamander, the axolotl. These unique salamanders, once abundant in the city’s borough of Xochimilco, are now nearly impossible to find in the wild. Researchers collect water samples and filter them for environmental DNA…
