PriyankaTuatara - The Oldest Life on New Zealand
The Tuatara are called "living dinosaurs" since they roamed around along with dinosaurs aeons ago! Lizards and snakes are its closest relatives, however the Tuatara belongs to a different class of reptiles.
The word 'tuatara' is Maori for "peaks on the back". The Tuatara has a Third Eye! This eye is visible in young ones in a few months it gets covered with scales. This eye absorbs UV rays when it is young and it absorbs Vitamin D through it.
It stayed on the New Zealand for all these aeons undisturbed however the dogs, rats, deers brought by man to this land has caused a great declination in the populations of these living fossils!!
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I've been heard of this New Zealand oldest creature before, but haven't had the chance to look the live one...
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Well my sources say that you can find Tuatara at Matiu/Somes Island in Wellington Harbour in the wild, Mt Bruce Wildlife Centre near Masterton, Victoria University and the Karori Wildlife Sanctuary in Wellington, Southland Museum in Invercargill and in some zoos.
If you see them let me know