The lizard-like tuatara already was an oddball. Its superpowers include a century-long lifespan, resistance to many diseases and a unique tolerance (for a reptile) to the cold. Now, it turns out, a ...

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 ...

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 ...

It looks like a lizard. It walks like a lizard. It sunbathes and lounges and eats like a lizard, but the tuatara is not a lizard. What the tuatara actually is goes as far back as the dawn of the ...

150 million years ago, a prehistoric reptile unlike modern lizards slinked around what is now Wyoming. An ancient rhynchocephalian, the insect-eating animal’s discovery could shed light on the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Researchers have discovered a new extinct species of lizard-like reptile that belongs to the same ancient lineage as New Zealand's living tuatara. A team of scientists describe the new species ...