Sentences with word «tuatara»

«Given this high rate of molecular evolution, the stable morphology of tuatara over tens of millions of years is remarkable,» the team writes in its report.

Evolutionary biologist David Lambert of Griffith University in Australia and his team analyzed DNA samples taken from ancient tuatara bones and from living specimens.

In New Zealand, Brothers Island tuataras have been moved to predator - free Titi Island without anyone knowing for sure whether they ever lived there.

Meanwhile, nature lovers will be won over by a trip to Zealandia, where you can see tuatara, kaka and takehe among many other rare New Zealand birds and wildlife.

Reptiles were defined as the set of animals that includes crocodiles, alligators, tuatara, lizards, snakes, amphisbaenians and turtles, grouped together as the class Reptilia.

They show that the iconic survivors of this lost fauna — the tuataras, moas, kiwi, acanthisittid wrens, and leiopelmatid frogs — evolved in a far more complex community that hitherto thought.»

The tuatara is a reptile, the only surviving member of Rhynchocephalia, or Sphenodontia / Sphenodontida.

Often called a living fossil, the tuatara reptile looks as if it has hardly changed in the more than 200 million years since it shared habitat with the early dinosaurs.

He found that over the past 9,000 years, parts of the tuatara genetic code have changed 50 percent more quickly than those of any other vertebrate tested by the same method.

Equipped with a chewing style that's unique among living animals, tuataras are the masters of mastication — and they have three eyes

During the day, large forest parrots called kaka swoop over tuatara, the only survivors of a prehistoric group of reptiles.

In the 1990s, the skull was subject to initial study in which it was identified as a cousin of a modern lizard - like reptile called a tuatara.

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Learn about conservation efforts here while seeking out endangered bird and reptile species, including the flightless takahe and the tuatara.

At Pukaha Mt Bruce Wildlife Centre see endangered birds such as kiwi, kaka, kokako and takahe and the tuatara, a «living fossil» reptile that lived at the time of the dinosaurs.

Rising temperatures look set to produce male - only offspring in the tuatara, condemning the ancient reptile species to extinction by 2085, computer modelling predicts.

Though many species — such as the moa, a giant flightless bird, and the Haast's eagle, with its impressive 10 - foot wing span — have gone extinct since European settlers arrived, countless others remain, such as the kakapo, the world's heaviest parrot (which is also flightless) and the tuatara, a reptile that was a contemporary of the dinosaurs and is now the last of its kind.