[BenLurkin]

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[Navy Patriot]

Genomic Study Reveals New Zealand's Tuatara Is Like No Other Animal on The Planet

Not commonly known, Dr. Frankenstein retired to New Zealand.

[Yo-Yo]

Had to do it...

[Lurkina.n.Learnin]

“the tuatara - which does greatly resemble a lizard to the untrained eye”

Don’t look like a duck.

[Eagles6]

More importantly, how do you cook them?

What can be eaten will be eaten.

[bk1000]

Probably tastes like chicken.

[martin_fierro]

Sure looks like a damn lizard

[I cannot think of a name]

No, no, no - it all just evolved, it’s all just random luck, and don’t even ask damming questions, like “if all this stuff evolved, why do we still have the things they evolved from?”

Those kinds of questions lead to the inescapable conclusion that some kind of intelligent design was behind all this - and our liberal masters will have none of that.

[Songcraft]

Tuataras - better known by the natives there as "Ta-Tas".

[ifinnegan]

“Scientists already knew the tuatara (Sphenodon punctatus) was something else, but this new research suggests it’s even more unique than we suspected.”

Evolutionary theory hasn’t ever predicted anything.

[central_va]

It’s a lizard.

[Sirius Lee]

"Not flesh nor fish nor bone, A red rag hangs from an open mouth, Alive at both ends but a little dead in the middle..."

I was expecting something a little more Dimetredon, but that ventral sail is weak!

[GOPJ]

The sex of future tuatara depends heavily on the temperature surrounding the eggs, and global warming could lead to too many males being born, sending the reproductive cycle into an imbalance.

They've survived 450 million years but might not make it the next 10? Gimmme a break...

[aquila48]

Looks like a lizard, walks like a lizard, eats like a lizard... but “science” tells us it’s not a lizard.

Who do you believe, your lying eyes or “science”?

It’s a bit like when it’s 10 under in Buffalo and the “scientists” are telling us the planet is burning.

[taxcontrol]

My pastor once told me that he knew that God had a sense of humor. When I asked how did he know, he simply replied “The duck billed platypus”.

This seems to be the same thing but at a DNA level.

[Wuli]

More details:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuatara

[Irenic]

*bmk

[Paul R.]

Here’s the link to the study in Nature Magazine online. It is very interesting, if a bit “thick” reading. It is quite astonishing what the genetics can tell us.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2561-9#Abs1

[Born to Conserve]

They taste like turducken.

[Redcitizen]

I’d like to see the Cajun Recipe for this critter.