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 ...

There was once a thriving group of reptiles that lived during the time of the dinosaurs. Rhynchocephalia is a reptile order that evolved around 240 million years ago. These reptiles used to live ...

A rare reptile is shedding light on the evolution of the penis — even though it doesn’t have one. The tuatara, a lizardlike species in New Zealand, never grows a real phallus. Yet as an embryo, it ...

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, ...

A once-species-rich order of reptiles called the Rhynchocephalia lived across the globe during the time of the dinosaurs 1, 2. Just one of these species survives today: the tuatara (Fig. 1). Found ...