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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Biologists have sequenced the genome of the tuatara, a lizard-like creature that lives on the islands of New Zealand. A lizard-like creature whose ancestors once roamed the Earth with dinosaurs and ...