![Tuatara sitting on a rock, blue background.](http://static.sciencelearn.org.nz/images/images/000/001/336/full/REP_CNT_INT_landing.page_heroimage_18Nov09.jpg?1674165968)
New Zealand’s endemic tuatara is a very unusual animal. They are the only living representative of a group of reptiles known as Rhynchocephalia that first evolved over 200 million years ago.
New Zealand’s endemic tuatara is a very unusual animal. They are the only living representative of a group of reptiles known as Rhynchocephalia that first evolved over 200 million years ago.