A Tuatara Lizard.— A reptile which alone retains the characteristics that were common in the Triassic period many centuries ago. Though its contemporaries were extinct long before man came to the world, this lizard, owing to its slow rate of living, has a life of up to three hundred years. It is now found, as stated in an article supplied by the Dominion Museum and published in to-day’s news columns, only on the islands outlying the coasts of New Zealand.
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Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 158, 1 April 1937, Page 9
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80A Tuatara Lizard.—A reptile which alone retains the characteristics that were common in the Triassic period many centuries ago. Though its contemporaries were extinct long before man came to the world, this lizard, owing to its slow rate of living, has a life of up to three hundred years. It is now found, as stated in an article supplied by the Dominion Museum and published in to-day’s news columns, only on the islands outlying the coasts of New Zealand. Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 158, 1 April 1937, Page 9
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