Aug. 6 (UPI) --Though New Zealand's tuatara looks very much like a lizard, it's not. The tuatara is the last of its kind, the sole living member of the reptilian order of Rhynchocephalia. New research ...

The specimen shows that modern tuatara found in New Zealand are little changed from ancestors that lived 190 million years ago. By Jack Tamisiea New Zealand’s tuatara look like somber iguanas. But ...

5 August 2020, Cambridge - A global team of researchers has partnered up with the Māori tribe Ngātiwai to sequence the genome of the tuatara, a rare reptile endemic to New Zealand. Their work, ...

AMES, Iowa – Scientists searching the most ancient corners of the genome of a reptile native to New Zealand found patterns that help explain how the genomes of all vertebrates took shape, according to ...

It looks like a lizard. It walks like a lizard. It sunbathes and lounges and eats like a lizard, but the tuatara is not a lizard. What the tuatara actually is goes as far back as the dawn of the ...

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150 million years ago, a prehistoric reptile unlike modern lizards slinked around what is now Wyoming. An ancient rhynchocephalian, the insect-eating animal’s discovery could shed light on the ...

Harrisonburg native and biology professor Kristine Grayson comes to Eastern Mennonite University to present a Suter Science Seminar on a common problem for the conservation and management of ...

The study, published in Conservation Physiology, found tuatara sperm are fast moving and a whopping three times longer than human sperm. Following the settlement of Aotearoa New Zealand, many native ...

A zoo in England celebrated the arrival of rare but adorable reptiles. The Chester Zoo just hatched six tuataras, the zoo announced on its Facebook page. The tuatara, also known as the "living ...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand – A captive reptile in New Zealand has unexpectedly become a father at the ripe old age of 111 after receiving treatment for a cancer that made him hostile toward prospective ...