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9 Axolotl Coloring Pages to Print for Free!

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Drawing of a chubby axolotl sitting, colored with watercolors
Colored by the Coloring Together artists. See gallery.

Picture a little animal that never grows up: no matter how many years go by, it keeps its baby face and a smile that never fades. That is the axolotl, and coloring it is pure sweetness. We put together these axolotl coloring pages so you can give it all the color its smile deserves.

You will find axolotls for every taste: a chubby one sitting down, another swimming through the algae, a baby resting on the bottom and even one sunbathing by a pond. Try colored pencils, markers or watercolors: since the best-known axolotl is pink, you will have fun mixing pinks and purples for its frilly gills.

Here at Coloring Together we love it when a drawing makes you smile as much as an axolotl does. When you finish yours, send it to us: we have a gallery, like a pond full of colorful axolotls, where we would love to give it a spot.

Axolotl coloring pages

Why color axolotl pictures?

The axolotl is a Mexican salamander that lives in the canals of Xochimilco, near Mexico City. It has something that makes it unique: it never turns into an adult. While other salamanders grow up and leave the water, the axolotl spends its whole life swimming, with its feathery gills around its head.

Coloring axolotls is a fun way to get to know this very special amphibian. While you choose the pink of its skin and the red of its gills, you discover why scientists all over the world study it so much: the axolotl can grow back a leg, its tail and even parts of its heart.

We also added several fun facts about the axolotl scattered among the drawings, so every page you color leaves you something new to share. Shall we grab the colors?

Learn while coloring Axolotl

  1. The axolotl is a salamander that in the wild lives only in the canals of Xochimilco, in Mexico. Nowhere else in the world is it found naturally.
  2. Its name comes from Nahuatl, the language of the Aztecs, and is linked to Xolotl, a god. Some say it means something like water monster or water dog.
  3. The axolotl has a real superpower: if it loses a leg, its tail or even part of its heart, it grows back. That is why scientists study it so much around the world.
  4. Unlike other salamanders, the axolotl never fully grows up: it spends its whole life in the water with a baby face. Scientists call this neoteny.
  5. Those feathers around its head are not decorations: they are its gills, and they let it breathe underwater.
  6. The most famous axolotl is pink with red gills, but in the wild most of them are dark brown with little spots, to hide better among the plants.
  7. It looks like it is always smiling, but that smile is really just the shape of its mouth. It makes us want to smile too!
  8. The axolotl is a carnivore: it eats worms, insects and small animals that it catches in one gulp, opening its mouth suddenly like a vacuum.
  9. In Mexico people love it so much that it appeared on the 50 peso banknote, swimming among the plants of Xochimilco.
  10. Very few axolotls are left in the wild and it is endangered, which is why it is so important to take care of the water where it lives.

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