Using carbon signatures to assess diet, we found that as much as 40% of the dietary carbon in sampled tuatara had marine origins – explaining the headless seabird carcasses often encountered ...

The lethargic Tuatara’s diet is mostly made up of invertebrates. But their metabolism is so slow that they’re fine if they don't make a kill for a while–one meal can last them for a long time.

As the tuatara ages, it has to switch to a softer diet. They live incredibly long lives. On average, the tuatara lives for 60 ...

The SSC Tuatara is motivated by a bonkers twin-turbocharged 5.9-liter V8 co-developed with Nelson Racing Engines. On a steady diet of E85 gasoline, the SSC Tuatara is pushing 1,750-horsepower to ...

The specimen shows that modern tuatara found in New Zealand are little changed from ancestors that lived 190 million years ago. By Jack Tamisiea New Zealand’s tuatara look like somber iguanas.

Just one of these species survives today: the tuatara (Fig. 1). Found only in New Zealand, tuatara are a taonga (‘special treasure’) for Maori people. The reptiles have a set of intriguing ...