My daughter belongs to the team of Tuataras at her school. What then is tuatara?
"The tuatara lives only in New Zealand on a few remote offshore islands.
"Its lineage stretches back 225 million years and it is truly a survivor from the Dinosaur age.
"It is not a lizard but classified as Sphenodontida. The only other Sphenodontidans are fossils and the tuatara is often referred to as a living fossil.
"It has teeth and powerful jaws and feeds on insects, snails, lizards and even small sea birds.
"The word tuatara comes from the Maori language and means spiny-back."
The above comes from a miniature plastic model tuatara she bought at the museum.
