18 Aug 2017

Critter of the Week: the Tuatara!

From Afternoons, 3:26 pm on 18 August 2017

Think that being the last surviving member of a group of animals alive during the time of dinosaurs is enough of a claim to fame?

There's that and many other extraordinary facts about the tuatara.

DOC's Threatened Species Ambassador Nicola Toki talks to Jesse about the amazing tuatara in today's Critter of the Week segment.

Nicola Toki and Tuatara

Nicola Toki and Tuatara Photo: supplied/Emma Neill

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