New Zealand's tuataras prove the old adage "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" like few other animals on the planet (coelacanth, I'm looking at you). While paleontologists have long differed over the ...

Tuataras are Different from Lizards At a first look, tuataras appear similar to their lizard cousins. But there are a couple of important differences. Tuataras have more ribs than lizards on their ...

Tuataras can take 10 to 20 years to reach sexual maturity. The gestation period for a Tuatara can take 2-5 years which make it hard for conservation projects to breed Tuataras.

Tuataras are the only living descendants of an order, related to dinosaurs, that flourished 200 million years ago.

Because of its long generation time, tuataras can take up to 50 years to begin reproducing, the reptile's ability to adapt to a rapidly changing environment is limited, she says.

Playwright and author David Geary has been announced as the 2008 Writer in Residence with the University’s International Institute of Modern Letters.

His chief writing project however, is a full-length play based on Mark Twain’s 1895 lecture tour of New Zealand. Mr Geary says he is particularly interested in an incident in Wanganui when a man ...