{"id":547348,"date":"2026-04-24T00:28:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T00:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/547348\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T00:28:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T00:28:09","slug":"mexican-axolotl-found-by-10-year-old-under-a-bridge-in-wales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/547348\/","title":{"rendered":"Mexican Axolotl found by 10 year-old under a bridge in Wales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">An endangered Mexican axolotl has been found living under a bridge, by a ten-year-old girl.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Evie found the axolotl, which she&#8217;s named Dippy, after the bridge, near Brigend in south Wales.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It was hiding under a bit of green mat that was floating in the river.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I lifted it up, I saw an axolotl and shouted &#8216;there&#8217;s an axolotl!,'&#8221; she told BBC correspondent Niki Cardwell.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I saw it in the water and then I caught it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Her cousins and her mum didn&#8217;t believe her at first but when she came out holding it &#8211; all 22 centimetres and speckled freckles of it &#8211; they had to.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We both saw this thing with gills on its head and I&#8217;m like, that&#8217;s an axolotl,&#8221; Evie said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An endangered Mexican axolotl has been found living under a bridge, by a ten-year-old girl. Evie found the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":547349,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":{"0":"post-547348","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-science","9":"tag-uk","10":"tag-united-kingdom","11":"tag-unitedkingdom","12":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547348","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=547348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547348\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/547349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=547348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=547348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=547348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}