His email is [email protected]. This article originally appeared on Oklahoman: At first glance, the plush toy seemed otherworldly, but it depicts an amphibian, an axolotl.

Skyrocketing plush toy sales – fueled by a need for comfort ... Highland cows, red pandas and axolotls, a type of salamander native to Mexico, have all popped up in popular culture.

Now, it seems, they’re everywhere: in the form of plush toys, children’s books, fashion and decor. But the axolotl is only the latest creature to charm kids and mystify their millennial and ...

“Now, everybody knows axolotls.” Cassandra Clayton, a Vermont Teddy Bear Company product designer, said rising sales to adults are also fueling the demand for unique _ and collectible — plush toys.