{"id":546314,"date":"2026-04-23T11:39:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T11:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/546314\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T11:39:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T11:39:07","slug":"endangered-mexican-axolotl-discovered-by-girl-10-under-a-bridge-in-wales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/546314\/","title":{"rendered":"Endangered Mexican axolotl discovered by girl, 10, under a bridge in Wales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Discoveries of creatures like Dippy should always be reported to the government through organisations such as the National Centre for Reptile Welfare. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Director Chris Newman said there were no recorded sightings of Mexican axolotls in the world or the UK, adding that Evie probably saved its life.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;This is a quite a unique situation, and I think the young female has a keen eye to actually spot it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">I think she did remarkable to find him,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Without her help, Newman said the axolotl had little chance of living very long, so she &#8220;did him a real favour&#8221; by catching him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;That itself is no mean feat,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;They&#8217;re quite slippery, so I think she did really well.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Discoveries of creatures like Dippy should always be reported to the government through organisations such as the National&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":546315,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-546314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=546314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546314\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/546315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=546314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=546314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=546314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}