Tuatara -- a 'Living Fossil' (IMAGE)

University of Bristol

Tuatara -- a 'Living Fossil'

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The living tuatara tracks back to the Triassic, over 200 million years ago, and shows little change from that time.

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Tom Stubbs/ University of Bristol

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