tuatara

[ UK /tjˌuːɐtˈɑːɹɐ/ ]
NOUN
  1. only extant member of the order Rhynchocephalia of large spiny lizard-like diapsid reptiles of coastal islands off New Zealand
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How To Use tuatara In A Sentence

  • However, there were several talks on other “exotic” organisms such as koa birds, kangaroos and tuatara lizards. Lord of the Drinks: The Fellowship of the Rental Car - The Panda's Thumb
  • Today, it is largely covered in regenerated bush, with a thriving population of tuatara in hillside burrows.
  • Some animals are casually named - tsessebe, greater bilby, boodie, tuatara, woylie - as if every reader knows what they look like. NYT > Travel
  • The word "tuatara" is derived from a Maori word meaning "spiny back. CNN.com
  • Finally, today's snakes, lizards, turtles, the tuatara, and crocodiles do enjoy a surprisingly broad latitudinal distribution.
  • One endangered reptile in an order of its own, called a tuatara, has a light receptive organ on its head; almost like a third eye. CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]
  • On Catalyst you can also meet the amazing Tuatara from New Zealand who is not a lizard and who goes back to the Jurassic and meet stingers, the box jellyfish we talked about on the Science Show in January.
  • New Zealand's tuataras were in a group of their own, and seem not to have changed at all.
  • Some "living fossils" such as ginkgo trees, coelacanth fish and tuatara reptiles appear virtually the same today as their ancestors, which co-existed with the dinosaurs 100m years ago, while in the African Great Lakes thousands of new species of cichlid fish have appeared within the past Top Stories - Google News
  • It has been independently lost or reduced in several amniote lineages, however, including crocodilians, birds, tuataras, iguanian lizards, cetaceans, and catarrhine primates.
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