tuatara a的意思|示意

However, while a boost in temperature generally results in a nest full of more females than males, the opposite is true for tuatara whose offspring skew toward male in warmer climes.

通常来说，如果温度升高，雌性后代的出生率就会高一些。但鳄蜥的情况正相反，在更温暖的环境下，雄性后代的出生率更高。

They found that, although tuatara have remained largely physically unchanged over very long periods of evolution, they are evolving - at a DNA level - faster than any other animal yet examined.

他们发现，虽然刺背鳄蜥的大部分形态在长期的进化中并没有产生变化，但从DNA层面上看，它们比其他已经检测过的动物的进化速度都要快。

Of course we would have expected that the tuatara, which does everything slowly — they grow slowly, reproduce slowly and have a very slow metabolism — would have evolved slowly.

我们本以为刺背鳄蜥应该进化得很慢，就像它们做什么事都很慢一样——长得慢，繁殖慢，新陈代谢也慢。

Saving the tuatara is a matter of pride among new zealand's indigenous groups. the animals are revered by the maori as a taonga or treasure.

拯救大蜥蜴在新西兰土著部落里是一件荣耀的事情。这种动物被毛利人视宝贵财富。

Photo Gallery: Jurassic Period Clinging to life on an offshore crag, a tuatara looks little different from his Jurassic relatives.

死抱着在海面上的峭壁，一只新西兰大蜥蜴看起来有点不同，从它的侏罗系的亲属。

Photo Gallery: Jurassic Period Clinging to life on an offshore crag, a tuatara looks little different from his Jurassic relatives.

侏罗纪时代图片集。死抱着在海面上的峭壁，一只新西兰大蜥蜴看起来有点不同，从它的侏罗系的亲属。