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Work Photographer's corner Friday flashback
Axolotls on parade

Photo by Chris Meyer
2005—Kristen Miller spends a portion of her part-time summer job cleaning axolotl containers at the lab in Jordan Hall on the IU Bloomington campus.


File photo courtesy of IU Archives
The axolotl has served as a research animal and an "outreach animal," bringing science education into Hoosier schools.


Photo courtesy of IU Archives
IU biology student Greg Nightengale is pictured in this 1979 file photo tempting the axolotls with dog chow and liver. A move of the colony to the University of Kentucky ends a nearly 50-year history at the IU Bloomington campus.