Return of the tuatara: a relict from the age of dinosaurs gets a human assist.(reptile conservation effort)(Cover Story) Science News | November 8, 1997| | COPYRIGHT 1997 Science Service, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information) Copyright

They're cold, they're old, they're slow. Tuatara, spiny cousins of lizards, are among the coldest of the cold-blooded reptiles, living on brisk, wind-whipped islands off the mainland of New Zealand. They take years to develop and hatch but then make the most of that effort. Growing to almost 2 feet long, tuatara live at least the biblical threescore and ten years, and probably a century or more.

Tuatara are also a zoological rarity, the lone members of the order Sphenodontida. The rest of the order probably went extinct with the dinosaurs, leaving only the tuatara ...

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