Dippy the injured axolotl rescued from Welsh river

Evie Hill and Dippy the axolotl. She told her disbelieving mum: ‘Mum, there’s an axolotl in the river.’ Photograph: Melanie Hill/SWNS

An injured axolotl is on the road to recovery after being rescued from a river in Wales. “Dippy” was found under the Dipping Bridge on the River Ogmore near Bridgend, south Wales, by a family who had stopped for a break while travelling on holiday last week.

Evie Hill, 10, lifted up a discarded mat in the shallows of the river, and nestled in the rocks was a 9in (22cm) axolotl, an aquatic salamander native to Mexico. It was pale in colour, with speckles, and had injuries to its tail and stomach believed to have been caused by a predator, the BBC reported.