Tuatara
Tuatara are only found in New Zealand and they are amongst
the oldest creatures in the world. They were on the earth 220 million years
ago. At that time there were a lot of tuatara all over the world, but in most
places they died out about one million years ago because other stronger animals
developed and these animals killed off the tuatara. At the same time, New
Zealand became separated from the rest of the world so tuatara have continued
to exist in New Zealand because there were no other animals to kill them.
Tuatara is a Maori word which means pointed back , because
along their backs tuatara have a line of small points
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