Tag: New Zealand
Auckland Zoo Receives Five Critically Endangered Awakōpaka Skinks
The reptile was first discovered in 2014. Its name means skink that ‘lives in the footprints of mighty glaciers.” [...]
![Tuatara Largely Unchanged In 190 Million Years, New Fossil Shows Tuatara Largely Unchanged In 190 Million Years, New Fossil Shows](https://reptilesmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/tuatara-markwalshe72-1.jpg)
Tuatara Largely Unchanged In 190 Million Years, New Fossil Shows
Tuatara are endemic to New Zealand and while they resemble lizards, they are part of the order Rhynchocephalia. [...]
![New Zealand Scientists Want To Regulate Cats After One Regurgitated 28 Lizards New Zealand Scientists Want To Regulate Cats After One Regurgitated 28 Lizards](https://reptilesmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/cat-eats-lizard.jpeg)
New Zealand Scientists Want To Regulate Cats After One Regurgitated 28 Lizards
Feral cats, like everywhere else in the world, are a big problem in New Zealand, so much so that scientists are calling on more stringent feral cat ma [...]
![Tuatara’s Two Sets Of Mitochondrial Genome May Help It Withstand Cold Temperatures Better Tuatara’s Two Sets Of Mitochondrial Genome May Help It Withstand Cold Temperatures Better](https://reptilesmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/tuatara-markwalshe72.jpg)
Tuatara’s Two Sets Of Mitochondrial Genome May Help It Withstand Cold Temperatures Better
Researchers have discovered that the tuatara (Sphenodon punctatus), lizard-like reptiles endemic to New Zealand and the only living member of the rept [...]
![Green Geckos Benefit From Soft Penned Release In New Zealand Green Geckos Benefit From Soft Penned Release In New Zealand](https://reptilesmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/green-gecko1000.jpg)
Green Geckos Benefit From Soft Penned Release In New Zealand
Researchers in New Zealand studying the green barking gecko (Naultinus punctatus) have determined that releasing this species in a "soft pen" rather t [...]
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