old Mass. girl raises $1,000 for Harvard axolotl lab | NYGazet

Lots of kids are fans of the cute pink salamanders known as axolotls. But Marianne Cullen of Springfield is perhaps the only one raising money to support Harvard's axolotl research.

Like many kids, Marianne first learned about axolotls at school. There was lots of talk on the kindergarten playground about how the salamanders are “so cute,” she said. As axolotls grow in popularity, more kids — and by extension, their parents — ar... [3771 chars]