THE NEW CUSTOMHOUSE! BUILDING, WELLINGTON
— W. A. Taylor, photo.* THE TUATARA (SPHENODON PUNCTATUS). The Tuatara is now a rare animal, being found only on a. few islets lying off the coast of New Zealand. Formerly it was common throughout both the North and South Island's. Its strnotuial peculiarities are unique, establishing its claim' to a front place among the " found links" of organic evolution. In bodily structure the Tuatara seems as nearly related 1 to Hie turtles^,s to the true lizards. It may be described as a "living fossil " whose nearest ally lived in Europe in the Jurassic period. Our picture is -that of a tame specimen in the Wellington Museum.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2649, 21 December 1904, Page 47
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111THE NEW CUSTOMHOUSE! BUILDING, WELLINGTON —W. A. Taylor, photo.* THE TUATARA (SPHENODON PUNCTATUS). The Tuatara is now a rare animal, being found only on a. few islets lying off the coast of New Zealand. Formerly it was common throughout both the North and South Island's. Its strnotuial peculiarities are unique, establishing its claim' to a front place among the " found links" of organic evolution. In bodily structure the Tuatara seems as nearly related1 to Hie turtles^,s to the true lizards. It may be described as a "living fossil " whose nearest ally lived in Europe in the Jurassic period. Our picture is -that of a tame specimen in the Wellington Museum. Otago Witness, Issue 2649, 21 December 1904, Page 47
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