What On Earth Is A Tuatara? | Modern Dinosaurs
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- Опубликовано: 28 сен 2024
- Today, Department of Conservation rangers Lee and Joyce are in search of a rare animal found only on an island in New Zealand. Follow them on their quest to find and breed two Tuataras, an ancient reptile that predates the dinosaurs.
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it's incredible, that, even though these specific creatures aren't lizards, you can see where a lot of lizards get their traits. for example, a lot of modern reptiles also have a third eye, of sorts, however, it doesn't have an actual retina. just light and dark sensors. it's absolutely fascinating that these guys have whole retinas under their scales.
I could be wrong here but I think it's called convergent evolution.
@@kennarajora6532 Not necessarily. it wouldn't be if they both inherited it from a common ancestor.
@Roberto Biagio Randazzo We have enough problems with other invasive species. We do not need one more.
and a lense
They're lizards. Duh
That 3rd eye might detect shadows movement above their heads
That’s a great hypothesis!
Iguanas have something similar
that's what it does in cycluras and agamids!
Usually, yes.
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These guys are so adorable. Thank you guys for protecting them!
Please save them 💕
Cringe
FlowerPower123 your cringe
@@thalias6945 You're. Please get educated.
FlowerPower123 yu nied too gett educatid.
Didnt you see that they may have been caused the extintion by these ones
Tuatara has a very short snout with large eyes. It looks distinctly different from ordinary lizards. They look like little aliens in the process of evolving.
200 millions years, they come from another space time, of course they are Alien, it is awesome!
5:10 It almost had the face of a hawk in this frame
I think they're very cute.
I also think that if Aliens ever visit earth, they'll gently pick up a Tuatara and say "Hello again, my little friend".
Now I fear and respect the Tuatara.
Wdym this are dinosaurs not aliens tf
I am absolutely fascinated by Tuatara. I'd love to be involved in a breeding program. The world needs more of these little weirdos!
The third eye is to see into your soul.
Bahahajahaahaaaa I pooped nice me me hahaha..haaaa
Bruh. Sapping my chakra.
Well no, it's used to see if any predator is on top
@@bielbarcellos_commenter Or Maybe as a light sensitive organ like a sun-compass.
I want one because it had a 3rd eye....
Leo brought me here 😎
I came for the cool looking lizard-like animal and got the crap scared out of me by the giant ass bugs. Thank goodness for the tuatara.
Finally Leo go to wild 😂
Random Person: "So they're lizards?"
Me, an intellectual: "Well, yes! But actually, no!"
Hahaha, i'm years late to read this
the coolest reptiles ever!
The guy biologist kinda sounds like Brain from pinky and the brain
leo brought me here
All we need now is a Moa to be found in Fiordland, living with a kiwi and a kakapo, and a kea as their security guard!!
How about some Tasmanian tigers, Stellar's Sea Cows, and some Passenger pigeons?
IMakeChiliDogs - be the change you want
What great work by these conservationists.
Such a shame that there were no pest/wildlife laws for boats back in the day. 2 rats can do a lot of damage.
people like these people are so inspiring. truly making a difference in our world and saving species is amazing. good work!!! i'm so happy we have people working to save animals :D
While I’m all for conservation of these nifty reptiles, The Video suggests that Tuatara are on the verge of Extinction. The species is actually listed as “Least Concern” with somewhere between 60,000 and 100,000 individuals existing on various small islands surrounding New Zealand.
New Zealand government and a lot of it's people encourage cruelty towards introduced animals as part of a policy to "remove all introduced animals) from New Zealand by 2050. School children are even encouraged to participate in drowning baby possums. Some individual arseholes even have a "swerve to hit" policy if driving and they see a possum or a rabbit on the road. This is supported by a fanatical "save our native animals" dogma. Ferrets used to be a popular pet in New Zealand. It was banned. Now there is talk about banning cats and mice/rats as pets. In the name of conservation of animals New Zealand has transitioned to one of the most animal cruel nations around.
If they have to elimanaite all invasive species they have to remove theirselvses ( unless they are Maori)
@@thespookyvaginosisnut5984 Why not remove Maori? Genuinely curious. I am half Maori, but we only arrived 800years ago at max, and we were just as devastating on the native wildlife as the Europeans were, just as devastating on local wildlife as Native Americans were, just as devastating on native wildlife as the native Malagasy were, just as devastating on native wildlife as native Hawaiians were, just as devastating on native wildlife as indigenous Australians were. EVERYWHERE Humans expanded outside of Africa devastated animals populations and left hundreds if not thousands of species extinct. From Mammoths, to Cave Bears, to Moas, to Elephant Birds, to North American Horses, to Dodos, to bloody Passenger Pigeons (a species that number in the billions) to the Falkands Wolf, to Mastodons.
@@glenbe4026 the north american mass extinction was accualy from a meteorite
@@thespookyvaginosisnut5984 aah yes. I forgot about American exceptionalism. EVERYWHERE in the world where humans moved into, it is documented that species died (and not just the megafauna). From Wrangel Island, to Mauretius, to Galapagos, to New Zealand, to Madagascar, to Australia, to Siberia, to Europe. But North America is different. The native Americans were more in tune with nature than anyone else in the world and made no species extinct. sigh
God: " I thought we had discarded this three eyed prototype a long time ago!
Angels: " I guess we didn't get the memo
Many animals have more functional 3rd such as some snakes, lizards and salamanders, so it looks like the angels did a pretty bad job.
Super neat little dudes. We should breed them like we do bearded dragons, I'd totally be into having a few as pets. I'd give them a huge enclosure and everything.
It takes them nearly 25-30 years to reach sexual maturity
Also no one has had success breeding them outside of new zealand...
Chester Zoo managed to do it
@@WildWorld81 Wow, cool! Didn't knew that. So its possible, but certainly not on the same level as beardies
They will outlive you dude. Some live up too 300 years
That 3rd eye probably to sence predators above...
Perhaps an adaptation to be prayed upon by birds? Maybe becoming landlocked away from flighted birds has removed the selective pressure and that’s why it’s lost functionality in modern specimens? I’m no expert but it is interesting to think about 🤔
@@BlGGESTBROTHER Most avian predators in NZ still retained flight. It's actually a very small minority of birds that lost flight. Also, the parietal eye (third eye) is still functional and multiple reptiles actually possess them, it's not a unique feature in tuatara. My blue tongue skink actually has it, and will show a clear response to a looming shadow or hand from directly above and behind their line of sight. Really cool stuff.
It’s so sad how many species have gone extinct because of us. I hope there are still many dinosaur-like species just like tuatara or even once thought-to-be-extinct species on an undiscovered island far away, where humans will never find them.
Every island has been discovered and all the significant ones capable of sustaining large animals visited and settled, so unfortunately we won't be discovering an island full of weird creatures
Is it a frog? Is it a birb? An allogater? NO, it's a tartatuataratara!
i think that the third eye could see shadows and shapes a tautara being a meter long was a perfect food source for the eagles that are now extinct but lived in new zealand them swooping down to eat tautaras cast a shadow over them and over the third eye thats how it may stand a chance against the eagles
A way complicated adaptation for a animal that remains mostly unchanged for more than 100 million years old
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Well, it has to be an adaptation as the fossil record shows that no other closely related fossil has the third eye. Any guess as to when it evolved and in response to what?
Doubtful, however as a hatchling being able to crawl to the light to get out of the burrow is required. Much like a birds "tooth". I doubt there is a purpose after that.
Really interesting theory I didn’t think of that :) the thing also mentioned no other animals have had this third eye correct? Or was it just not found in their close relatives specifically? It’s odd we don’t know what it’s for given we know damn near everything about animals currently living. I never heard of this third eye in any animal in my life so it’s very interesting. Also I noticed they said at birth it’s open? But then scales grow Over later so the idea about seeing light to escape a burrow may be right. If in fact it’s only useful while uncovered?? Very very interesting!!!!
YOUR RIGHT GIRL
My husband read an article 2 days ago in a magazine ironically and states there the eye has a direct link to the brain for sensory - changes in light and shadows!!!! It even said it’s similar to the part of our own brains that helps us tell if it’s day or night and seasonal changes.
Incredibly fascinating !!!
It so cute how they actually stay in their little houses 🥺
When I was a little girl ( 1961- 67) I was fascinated by reptiles especially the tuatara. I've still never seen one.
They are so adorable.😊❤🤗😍
Thats so cool! I'm glad they were able to save them.
Looks like a pre godzilla
Wow!!I am scared of reptiles, TBH, but I am fascinated that these tuataras have such an intriguing history and anatomy.We definitely need to save these species and scientists have to work hard to save this incredible species from many threats, including climate change..
Beautiful and unbelievable 🦎🦎🥰!!
"See what the lizard sees. Tuatara." - The Pusher from The Outlast trials.
He's not a lizard though lol
6:53 dat vocal fry tho
💀💀💀💀
Omg 😮 Lol 😂
It's that woman?I thought there's a croaking toad nearby
We must not let these animals go extinct under any circumstances. If a lizard goes extinct, there are many other species of lizards that could evolve to fill its ecological niche, but there's no other animal alive today that could evolve to take the place of the tuatara.
Thankfully, tuataras are actually doing pretty well, to the point that the species is currently listed as Least Concern. The removal of sheep, cattle, and other livestock that were wrecking the tuatara’s habitat, and then the development of effective methods of eradicating rats from islands-it’s all made a huge difference for the better.
The Tuatara is now my favorite animal
Best animal ever
it sounds like they're a lot like turtles without a shell. did anyone else get that impression based on the traits they described?
I just thought the hatching one around 6:24 looked like a turtle.
The Tuatara has reached full enlightment
just 8 breeding adults to 300! wow! that was close!
I'm very happy that this population recovered. ^.^
Bless these cute creatures😍
Excuse me BIRDS are the dinosaurs here
Homey they're older than dinosaurs
It's a light sensor eye, at birth they need more res but prety soon it's just to tell if something is flying over them
Thankyou for Helping these once ferocious mafia family now cute creature.
I do not understand the womans saying: whoa holding 200mio years of history in my hands!😱
Man holding a bird is older and mamal too. We just evolved. TUATARA dont existed this long, hiss family did but not tuatara his self.
Cant help but see the resemblance to my bearded dragon.
Beardies r the best
I had a beardie too, but the lack of ear holes is a big difference
Yeah, you can definitely see how beardies descended from them/evolved alongside them. I wonder if some of these guys lived in modern Australia when the world was one big continent, and evolved into them over time...?
I can, slightly. I have a year old female. Shes a sweetheart!
@@SavannahBurris they didn’t descend from them.
Third eye senses Heat
Thank you for this!
Third eye? This animal is one with the universe.
I wish I was in a breeding program.
Same
gee, maybe your problem is that you bitch about not getting any in the comments of interesting animal videos? dipshit.
@@bigmouthprick5852 your a real Prick >:)
Maybe once more of you has economic or scientific benefit
Well, there are sperm and egg banks.
Survived 200 million before the dinosaurs and we've almost wiped them out in a few hundred years.
In the sci-fi setting I'm working on, these things aren't dinosaurs but literl dragons, and dragons would in-universe be defined as rhyncocephalians. There would have been megafauna of that type in the past, but they wwould have been driven to extinction centuries ago save the unassuming tuatara. The winged ones (wyverns) would have had pterosaur-like wings and been gliders. "Fire-breathing", on the other hand, actually would have come from the seraphim, a superficially similar species of brutal interstellar conquerors.
Crazy how you can see the similarities it has to other reptiles such as slowing their metabolism like crocodilians can.
Looks like I may have a new favourite animal
When it cut to the human holding it, I imagined it much bigger 😂
I love tuatara my favorite terrible lizard modern♥️😁👍👍👍
Other lizards have that third eye such as blue tongue skinks.
They don't represent Rhynchocephalia, they're alpine reptiles operating in such a remote niche with specific adaptions that they're able to survive in a reptile dominated diapsid space. It's like saying Rhea represents paleognatha. That said it's a shame they're pretty much done for, they are unable to compete with diapsids and mammals and have only survived on one of the most unique landmasses and last visited landmasses.
The third eye is actually present on other species of reptiles like bearded dragons
1:38
potato bug: oh hi tuatar- AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
Now i want one
I love Tuataras!!
They can go to 12 months without eating is very impressive.
Came here from PBS Eons. What a fantastically weird animal!
Lots of lizards have third eyes actually, they serve as a purpose for thermoregulating and detecting light.
Really like which lizards
But this still isn’t really a species of lizard it’s the last thing of its own family
@@coltkillergaming5685 like chinese water dragons and bearded dragons.
@@g.p3659 I had a bearded dragon it didn’t have no third eye though someone else said there third eyes are also less developed
The really good dinosaur
I guss all subspieces of tuatara died with the rats on new Zeeland - cant imagine a slow animal like this hadn't divided into many on New Zeeland . So imagine if you could get pre-rat tuatara dna from them.
I love animals
When I was a kid and reading, I thought that Tuatara was the only species of living dino, then in high school they said no .... but I always believed what it is ..... skull formation its way to move and look like a carnivorous dinosaur ..... it is only small if it had been 2-3 meters all would have been safe ...... (then if it had been bipedal and 6-8 meters with a weight of 1000kg the moari would have had problems) ...............
So cute 🥰
I hate how everyone acts like we trying to save these animals from extinction for the animals and not for ourselves. The animal does not care about its species , it only cares about survival of itself.
I wonder how closely related the tuatara is to the marine iguana 🦎? The resemblance is uncanny.
They are distantly related in fact, tuatara's ancestors split from the rest very early some 230 mln years ago. Way before the groups includi g the iguanas existed. Iguanas are one of the most recent lizard groups in evolutionary sense.
It’s through convergent evolution that they look so similar. Like with tawny frogmouths and owls, or sharks and dolphins
Conservation status: Least concern as of 2020.
Vulnerable on some specific islands though.
Did she call the terrarium a tuatarium? xDD
That 3rd eye though
This species have a third eye they're illuminated
I’m here because of John green’s book “turtle all the way down”
Same here
Looks like an Iguana. And yes it looks like any other reptile.
Resembles a smol dino
Still living to these people Bout Dinosaurs 😂
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Iguanas have a very distinct 3rd eye. Not covered by scales. In fact you can look down into the organ. No eyelid of course. It's dry and hard.
Dommage de pas avoir des sous-titres en Français ! Très belle vidéo intéressante mais je ne comprend rien
the 3rd eye is called the pinaall eye
They aren’t able to show the eye before scales? I’m so curious now. Never heard of this. It’s open at birth right is that what they say and then scales form over so perhaps it’s only used for something inside the egg or shortly after birth? After it becomes useless so is covered up to protect the area from being punctured. Lots of good ideas in comments :) so interesting ! I’m hooked ! 200 million years and I never heard of it lol doy
The third eye is like that of bearded dragons it's for protection from aerial attacks
Perhaps their skin looks like a dinosaurs! Any survivors of Cambrian type species?
Beautiful
That third eye is an eye of agamotto
remind me of Rhino Iguana for some reason
We could try and relocate them into small areas where they can live...
Is it sphenodon
If you continue saving them eventually we could begin having them as pets:)
This is the reptiles that trying to eat the girl and then got eaten by a V-Rex in “King Kong” movie.
That's the reason of the name of the car, Shelby Tuatara, because his face looks like a Tuatara.
Actually when you do that to reptiles it sends them in to a trance similar to birds or pigeons when they lie on their back they slow their hearts down to the point they barely breath and resemble death and the chance to escape into the invisibility of the environment, petting its belly doesn't do anything but stress it out. If you want to calm a reptile down hold one of its back feet as you hold it, not to hard or to light(more of a taming method of course) or a light grip so they know you won't hurt them, the trance is only good for survival any other use of it really just increases their risk of dieing instead, also a lot of you keep saying make them pets but that will just cause them to fade out genetically as a species instead, plus there won't even be enough for a long time to start a pet trade with them, they are more at risk of being genetically altered due to careless breeding by most people and Will eventually lose everything they once are now, plus people recreate habitats all the time, it's more a matter of importance and how much land. Also any prey animal prefers to be scooped not grabbed/picked up right off the bat.
I know what a tuatara is. It’s a twin-turbocharged 5.9 v8 hypercar with 1,750 horsepower and a zero to 60 in 2.5 and a top speed of 270 miles per hour
331 mph
Probably 350mph
Nope, all of it was debunked, the new Bugatti boilde is the fastest
Y’all do realize I made this a week before the tuatara hit 331 right?
@@lysol6497 you realize it was fake right
Modern dinosaurs would be birds. While animals of a similar genus existed while non avian dinosaurs were around they are only vaguely related.
Not necessarily
Wingless Drake.
Can one visit them at the breeding facilities? maybe by giving a donations to it? I would love to meet one live.
Last of its kind? Ancient? Something special and exclusive to itself on its head? Maybe Aang should have had this little guy on his shoulder instead of Momo...
I hate how this video implies that they are related to dinosaurs
I heard bearded dragons have an third eye, just hard to see them. And if this creature isn't a lizard, what is it then?