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• Despite this, scientists have been surprised to find that the tuatara is the "fastest evolving" creature on the genetic level. CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]
• The tuatara, a nocturnal lizardlike reptile from New Zealand, shares a nest with the diurnal petrel, a sea bird. For young readers: ‘How to Clean a Hippopotamus'
• Tuataras are primarily nocturnal predators of arthropods, especially those associated with sea bird colonies, and tree wetas (giant New Zealand orthopterans).
• Immense clades come and go without leaving any survivors, and these few weirdos keep chugging along, sometimes in refugia (tuatara) and sometimes not (horseshoe crabs). Are Sumatran rhinos really ‘living fossils’?
• In your mind, you're walking past the entrance to the Matterhorn, past the statue by the bucket fountain which nobody can ever agree on, as to if it's a frog or a tuatara, which is quite bizarre, you realise now, considering how utterly different they are. She.geek.nz
• A negative relationship between body size and rate of molecular evolution was found for phylogenetically independent pairs of reptile species spanning turtles, lizards, snakes, crocodile, and tuatara.
• dinosaur forests", unusual birds and living fossils such as tuatara, giant kauri snails and mute frogs. Latest Massey News
• Key fauna protection programs run by the Department of Conservation in the area focus on species present on the predator-free islands, including tuatara, native frogs, kakapo (Strigops habroptilus CR), the endangered takahe (Porphyrio mantelli), and little spotted kiwi (Apteryx owenii VU). Richmond temperate forests
• The lizard called the tuatara has been reintroduced, along with the weta, the world's heaviest insect. Times, Sunday Times
• At some point, the researchers do not know exactly when, an unknown factor allowed lizards and snakes to rise to dominance in South America, relegating the sphenodontids to the relic tuataras in isolated New Zealand.