Axolotls Have a Surprisingly Clever Cognitive Ability, Even in…

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorOn October fifteenth, twenty twenty-six, ScienceAlert reported that axolotls show a surprisingly clever cognitive ability, even in complete darkness.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorBrilliant. A small pink salamander is thinking in the pitch black, and nobody knows what it's planning.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorThe report says the clever part holds up with the lights off. The headline is all we have on what it is.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorSo the details are a mystery, which is exactly how the worst things begin.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorIt's a salamander, Dale.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorThat's exactly what it would want you to believe.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorThe story even asks what's going on in those little heads, and I'd like an answer before it finds a lawyer.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorI've read the news under bright lights for twenty-eight years and I haven't been clever in any of them.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorSo the dark was never the problem. It's the audience, and the axolotl has finally proved it.

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    Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorThen it's the first colleague in years who works well with the lights off.