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TuataraArchive of news articles on external web sites. For mongabay-specific articles, please see http://www.mongabay.com/xml/list.htmlTVNZ,A second baby tuatara has hatched from eggs laid on Matiu/Somes Island in Wellington Harbour. Scientists at Victoria University's School of Biological Second tuatara emerges from its egg - Aug 14, 2007 Stuff.co.nz,A second tuatara has hatched from eggs laid on Matiu/Somes Island in Wellington Harbour. The Department of Conservation and Victoria University of Baby lizard-like Tuatara found on NZ - Aug 12, 2007 The Age,After nine years New Zealand scientists are excited by the unexpected hatching of a baby tuatara - a native reptile so rare it's in danger of becoming Second tuatara hatches on Matiu/Somes Island - Aug 14, 2007 Radio New Zealand,The tuatara hatched from one of two eggs found in a buried nest on the island in May and taken to Victoria University to be incubated. Baby at last after nine years of trying - Aug 13, 2007 Stuff.co.nz,LIVING PROOF: The baby tuatara which emerged last week from an egg found on Matiu-Somes Island. It is the first known offspring of 54 Brothers Island Scientists cast doubt over NZ origins - Aug 15, 2007 The Age,It would throw a question mark over whether the tuatara was truly a "living fossil" and a remnant of the dinosaurs. The scientists think New Zealand animals New research could rewrite prehistory - Aug 15, 2007 Stuff.co.nz,...isolation on a landmass that had existed for 85 million years - and the widely held belief that tuatara had been in New Zealand since the dinosaur age. New Lynn rail trench tender - Aug 15, 2007 Scoop.co.nz,More >> Environment: Baby Tuatara Hatches — First For Matiu/Somes Island - It’s official—tuatara are breeding on Matiu/Somes Island in Wellington Harbour. Cullen: Harnessing potential of interntl Education - Aug 9, 2007 Scoop.co.nz,Researchers wanted to understand why tuatara mating is dominated by a very few, very aggressive males. Ms Moore needed a model to put in the wild and Cuddly carnivore caught on camera - Jul 24, 2007 Stuff.co.nz,Images of kiwi and tuatara interacting with their environment are also included in the gallery. Nga Manu founder and trustee Peter McKenzie said the 200 The state of te reo - Jul 27, 2007 The Nelson Mail,Then there are the tuatara and tui (bird or beer), hangi and haka, hui and hikoi ... words that hold their own as part of the Kiwi idiom and help to give it Bad weather holds up clearing boat wreckage - Jul 22, 2007 Marlborough Express,Stephens Island is home to 90 percent of the world's tuatara population, many endangered native species and species unique to the island. Minister checks wildlife hospital - Aug 16, 2007 Manawatu Standard,...including endangered species such as kakapo, takahe, yellow-eyed penguins, black stilts, the New Zealand falcon, short tailed bats, tuatara, blue duck, Hawke's Bay: Marine on parade - Aug 9, 2007 New Zealand Herald,...the country's oldest captive tuatara and Bluey the blue-tongued lizard, who was surprisingly soothing to stroke, in a reptilian way. Fancy watching a zoo monkey have surgery? - Aug 9, 2007 New Zealand Herald,Photo / Greg Bowker The curious can now go to Auckland Zoo to see operations on monkeys, hear the heartbeat of a tuatara or inspect polar bear parasites Nopsca was a funny old fossil - Aug 5, 2007 Stuff.co.nz,He also had a special interest in fossil sphenodonts – the forerunners of our tuatara. Many fossils Nopsca found in Romania were of dwarfed dinosaurs. Revolutionary new vet centre opens to visitors - Aug 9, 2007 Scoop.co.nz,...kiwi, tuatara, hihi, saddleback, whitehead, kakapo, and exotic species like the Seychelles white-eye and Japan’s Tsushima leopard cat. Manufacturers and Exporters Association launched - Aug 9, 2007 Scoop.co.nz,Will we have better rules to develop a productive economy? * Remember the Tuatara, things get worse bit by bit, if there is no reaction it can be too late. Zoo closes aviary to spread its wings - Aug 3, 2007 Auckland stuff.co.nz,..."There will be everything from giant snails to carnivorous centipedes, tuatara, and native frogs." Keepers were well on their way to catching the aviary Warming May Drive Gender-Bending Reptiles Extinct, Scientists Say Nov 10, 2006 Less than one degree Celsius (1.8 degrees Fahrenheit) is all that stands between the tuatara—New Zealand's "living fossil" reptile—and extinction ... - National Geographic, Eleven illegally imported reptiles face destruction Nov 20, 2006 ...country. The monitors were infected with a blood parasite that could threaten New Zealand's own indigenous tuatara, geckos and skinks. ... - New Zealand Herald, Large carved tiki a gift to Palm Desert Nov 9, 2006 ...regardless of race or origin. The hei tiki also features three tuatara, the oldest residents of New Zealand. "They have made the ... - Gisborne Herald, Time running out for old coins Oct 28, 2006 More than 700 million old coins are still in the public domain but the most elusive is the five cent piece with the silver tuatara proving hard to track down. ... - TVNZ, Last day for old coins Oct 31, 2006 Like the tuatara, the five cent coin has proved the most elusive, but Plunket has so far received $575,000 from 11 million five cent coins handed over for the ... - The Ashburton Guardian, Campus Calendar: Nov: 6 - 11, 2006 Nov 8, 2006 ..."Conservation and Genetics of a New Zealand Icon: The Tuatara.". A program 7 pm B program 9 pm in the Varsity Theater. $4 in Advance at info booth $5 at door. ... - BYU Newsnet, Te Kawau to make another big impact in division one Oct 26, 2006 This time Trevor Tuatara has joined Te Kawau from Northern and he will skip the pairs, with last year's fours No.3, Brian Love, playing singles in the club's ... - Manawatu Standard, Te Kawau in for tough test at Feilding Oct 29, 2006 But Terrace End's David Walker and Tony Terure beat Trevor Tuatara and Laurie Gordon, 18-17, in the pairs with their last bowl on the last end. ... - Manawatu Standard, Harawira: Reserve Bank of NZ Amendment Bill Oct 25, 2006 Mr Speaker, the next time you see a five-cent coin, grab it, because it may be the last time you handle Aotearoa’s unique and threatened Tuatara, and you ... - Scoop.co.nz (press release), Iwi say rules for tuatara venture tougher than DoC's own Mar 28, 2006 Ngati Koata Trust chair Roma Hippolite is supporting an application by the company, Tuatara Maori to take 60 tourists a year to Stephens Island, home of most ... Radio New Zealand, Stephens Island visitors opposed - too risky for tuatara Mar 28, 2006 A biosecurity expert says allowing tourists onto a remote island sanctuary in Cook Strait to see tuatara is too risky. A former ... Radio New Zealand, Tuatara tourism and tangata whenua Mar 29, 2006 ...ecologist Associate Professor Doug Armstrong has backed a proposal by a Mäori tourism company to fly people to Stephens Island to see and touch tuatara. ... Scoop.co.nz (press release), Protect tuatara at Stephens Island, hearing urged Mar 27, 2006 The best way to protect tuatara and other threatened species at Stephens Island is for the area to remain a restricted access nature reserve, rather than ... Scoop.co.nz (press release), Forest and Bird opposes Stephens Island tourism Mar 28, 2006 Tuatara Maori Ltd has applied for permission to take four people at a time to the island. They have asked to land a helicopter on ... Stuff.co.nz, Morning Report: local papers Mar 28, 2006 ...is thrilled about a proposal from a Maori tourism company to charge guests 2-thousand dollars to fly to an island for a personal encounter with a tuatara. ... Radio New Zealand, Minus 5 Leader Sings Devilishly Well of Hell and High Water Mar 29, 2006 Nick Lowe cover band called the Lowe Beats that he convenes every year at Seattle's Bumbershoot Festival, and he plays in Buck's experimental ensemble, Tuatara ... International News Service, Bay Buddies / By Kathleen Gaskell Mar 29, 2006 The five groups of reptiles are snakes, lizards, turtles, crocodilians and the tuatara (a lizard-like, beak-headed creature found only in New Zealand). ... The Chesapeake Bay Journal, Zoo tuataras offer clues to evolution Mar 10, 2006 A tuatara will start to wilt when the temperature hits 80, and keel over by the time it hits 90. ... A tuatara was released on the track. Then they waited. ... Toledo Blade, Finding a virus is not all bad news Mar 8, 2006 Questions around the movement and population size changes of Kiwis, Tuatara and other New Zealand wildlife over the past hundred years have been continually ... innovations report, Early Land Animals Could Walk and Run Like Mammals, New Study ... Mar 8, 2006 The tuatara, an ancient animal that today lives only in New Zealand, was one of the first animals to run on land. Photo by: Steve Reilly. ... PhysOrg.com, Early Land Animals Could Walk And Run Like Mammals, New Study ... Mar 9, 2006 Salamanders and the tuatara, a lizard-like animal that has lived on Earth for 225 million years, were the first vertebrates to walk and run on land, according ... Science Daily (press release) The Weather Makers: How Man Is Changing the Climate and What It ... Mar 17, 2006 ...fish whose habitat is disappearing so quickly that it may become extinct before it can properly be named, or the rare, male New Zealand tuatara, "the only ... calendarlive.com, Study Shows Early Land Animals Could Walk And Run Like Mammals Mar 9, 2006 Columbus, Ohio (AHN)—According to a recent study by Ohio University researchers, salamanders and the tuatara, a lizard-like animal that has lived on Earth ... All Headline News World’s best doctoral students study at Victoria Mar 23, 2006 Their research interests include: criminal deportees into Samoa and Tonga; Tuatara reproductive ecology; cross-cultural adaptation of international students ... Scoop.co.nz (press release), Early Land Animals Could Walk and Run Like Mammals Mar 8, 2006 Newswise — ATHENS, Ohio – Salamanders and the tuatara, a lizard-like animal that has lived on Earth for 225 million years, were the first vertebrates to ... Newswise (press release) Analysing animal viruses may help kiwi Mar 7, 2006 Questions surrounding kiwi, tuatara and other New Zealand wildlife may be unlocked with a breakthrough technique by scientists which examines viruses which ... New Zealand Herald, Cover Story Pam Grier comes back as Quentin Tarantino's Jackie ... Mar 2, 2006 More ... Music Feature: NOW writers choose their top 10 artists and shows of 1997. Discs: Radiohead, Tuatara seize the spotlight in NOW's 1997 critics' picks. ... Now Toronto, Back to the Low Beat Mar 3, 2006 ...his greatest talent is as a bandmate, considering that he's still active not just with the Minus 5 and REM, but also the instrumental group Tuatara and the ... OregonLive.com, Gimme shelter from the Stones Mar 7, 2006 People marvel at his drug-ravaged accomplice Keith Richards for much the same reason as one might gaze in awe at a tuatara; both are living fossils, surviving ... 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