Read about a tuatara. What option to choose? New Zealand’s Tuatara is one of the strangest and most unique on Earth, and the fact that it’s the last of its kind in a lineage as old as the first dinosaurs is just the beginning. The bulk of the population lives across seven islands in Cook Strait, located between the main North and South Islands of New Zealand. There are about 45,000 Tuatara on these islands, and they are closely protected. They are also protected and bred in Australia as living fossils. It might look like a regular old lizard, but when scientists were first classifying the species – (Sphenodon punctatus) – its bizarre skeleton set it apart as the member of the ancient reptile order Sphenodontia. The other existing orders of the Reptilia class are turtles, crocodilians, snakes, ‎Iberian worm lizards (‘worm lizards’), and lizards. The order Sphenodontia once flourished alongside the dinosaurs of the Age around 200 to 220 million years ago, until all but one species died out around 60 million years ago. It decapitates birds with , and unlike most other reptiles, it can live in near-freezing temperatures. Other strange features include their teeth – Tuatara have a single row on their lower jaw, and two rows on their upper jaw, and this unique configuration is one of the main things that separates them from the lizards. The tuatara can hold its breath for up to an hour. Tuatara were named by the Maori for the spiny "peaks" that run along their backs, but perhaps their most intriguing is the third eye that sits on the top their head. The eye is named as a parietal eye - it’s far more primitive than a regular eye, but it still has a lens and a retina, and is photosensitive, meaning it can sense light. A female needs two or three years to grow internally, and takes another seven or eight months before she finally lays those fertilized eggs. Then the eggs incubate in the ground for yet another year before a brood of finger-size baby tuataras will finally hatch. They do make sounds, but have no eardrums.

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Read about a tuatara. What option to choose?

New Zealand’s Tuatara is one of the strangest and most unique ...
on Earth, and the fact that it’s the last of its kind in a lineage as old as the first dinosaurs is just the beginning.
The bulk of the population lives across seven islands in Cook Strait, located between the main North and South Islands of New Zealand. There are about 45,000 Tuatara on these islands, and they are closely protected. They are also protected and bred in Australia as living fossils.
It might look like a regular old lizard, but when scientists were first classifying the species – \(Sphenodon punctatus\) – its bizarre skeleton set it apart as the ...
member of the ancient reptile order Sphenodontia.
The other existing orders of the Reptilia class are turtles, crocodilians, snakes, ‎Iberian worm lizards \(‘worm lizards’\), and lizards.
The order Sphenodontia once flourished alongside the dinosaurs of the ...
Age around 200 to 220 million years ago, until all but one species died out around 60 million years ago.
It decapitates birds with ...
, and unlike most other reptiles, it can live in near-freezing temperatures. Other strange features include their teeth – Tuatara have a single row on their lower jaw, and two rows on their upper jaw, and this unique configuration is one of the main things that separates them from the lizards.
The tuatara can hold its breath for up to an hour.
Tuatara were named by the Maori for the spiny "peaks" that run along their backs, but perhaps their most intriguing ...
is the third eye that sits on the top their head. The eye is named as a parietal eye - it’s far more primitive than a regular eye, but it still has a lens and a retina, and is photosensitive, meaning it can sense light.
A female needs two or three years to grow ...
internally, and takes another seven or eight months before she finally lays those fertilized eggs. Then the eggs incubate in the ground for yet another year before a brood of finger-size baby tuataras will finally hatch.
They do make sounds, but have no eardrums.

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