In Aztec mythology, the god Xolotl was a symbol of many things: fire and lightning, but also dogs, sickness, and more.
在阿茲特克神話中，Xolotl神是許多事物的象徵：火和閃電，但也有狗，疾病，等等。
A melange of a deity, basically – and the strange salamander named after him is, aptly enough, an unusual hybrid too.
基本上是神的混血-以他命名的奇怪蠑螈也是一個不同尋常的混血兒。
Axolotls (Ambystoma mexicanum), sometimes known as Mexican walking fish, are not actually fish at all, but amphibians, ones gifted with an amazing trait that borders on being a superpower: the ability to regenerate entire body parts if they go missing.
axolotls(Ambystoma Maxanum)，有時被稱為墨西哥步行魚，實際上根本不是魚，而是兩棲動物，它們具有近乎超級大國的驚人特徵：如果遺失了整個身體部位，就有再生的能力。
Other salamanders can replace lost limbs, but the axolotl's talents for regrowth may be unique.
其他蠑螈可以替代失去的四肢，但Axolotl再生的天賦可能是獨一無二的。
It can regenerate limbs, but also its tail, eyes, ovary and lung tissue, and spinal cord.
它可以再生四肢，但也可以再生它的尾巴，眼睛，卵巢和肺組織，以及脊髓。
Even whole sections of its brain and heart conveniently reappear, should they happen to disappear.
即使是大腦和心臟的整個部分也可以方便地重新出現，如果它們碰巧消失的話。
"It regenerates almost anything after almost any injury that doesn't kill it," says molecular biologist Grant Parker Flowers from Yale University.
耶魯大學的分子生物學家格蘭特·帕克·弗勞爾斯(Grant Parker Flowers)說：“幾乎任何傷害都不會殺死它，它會再生幾乎任何東西。”
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