The tuatara, native to New Zealand ... believed to be over 11,000 years old. The animal known to live 1,000 years is the glass sponge, potentially living over 10,000 years. Additionally, black corals ...

Tuatara. Image by Judi Lapsley Miller ... and the evolution of humanity itself. Animal lovers and history buffs alike will find themselves amazed, perhaps even a little awestruck, by these living ...

As animal life began to recover ... The origin of this successful group of marine reptiles is still not resolved. While the tuatara may look like a lizard, they are from a distinct lineage known as ...

Jason Miller, host of 5 Weird Animal Facts, will explain 5 facts why ... Tuataras have weird teeth. 3. Tuatara teeth are actually not really teeth. Tuatara “teeth” are actually protrusions ...

Tuatara. Image by Judi Lapsley Miller ... hold the distinction of being possibly the oldest living animal species, having remained virtually unchanged for at least 220 million years. Fossils from the ...

Enter the Venom F5, which is a very different animal from its Lotus-based forerunner ... with GM quoting up to 8,000 revolutions. The Tuatara may have made headlines for all the wrong reasons ...

In simple numerical terms, parasites make up a significant proportion of animal diversity (estimates ... right to be here as any others. Take the tuatara tick as an example. Evolutionary ...

The tuatara is a unique reptile that has survived ... the platypus can be described as a living fossil, because the animal combines so many characteristics with those of both reptiles and mammals.

As mentioned above, the tuatara doesn’t see out of its parietal eye, and scientists aren’t entirely sure of the reason it evolved on the animal. These are some possible theories as to the function of ...

Caroline Dawson, a living-species officer with the Invercargill city council, treads carefully between mossy logs and plants inside a new open-air tuatara enclosure in Invercargill’s Queens Park ...

Caroline Dawson, a living-species officer with the Invercargill city council, oversees a unique open-air tuatara enclosure in Invercargill's Queens Park animal reserve. This council-built facility ...