Tuatara: The Ancient Reptile That Outlived The Dinosaurs | Modern Dinosaur | Real Wild

[@kenyongray2615]

The tuatara is a remarkable reptile. That lifespan alone makes it remarkable. New Zealand is a beautiful country in its ruggedness.

[@Aye-Aye136]

Tuatara is the most ancient reptile on Earth ❤❤❤!

[@YochevedDesigns]

I am OBSESSED with Tuataras. I'd give anything just to be able to hold one, even for a few minutes.

[@peterashby-saracen3681]

What a wonderful creature! All praise to the heroes doing their utmost to ensure that these and other iconic species don't disappear.

[@Aye-Aye136]

New Zealand 🇳🇿 is an unique remnant of a very ancient fragment of Gondwana ❤❤❤!

[@ragnarlothbokjr7821]

Now watching From mizoram 👍🏿💞💞🥸

[@starchb0mb]

Came here after Ed and Emily from Snake Discovery missed out on seeing the Tuataras at the zoo in Texas.

[@Dee-so5fq]

Fantastic 👏 thanks!

[@Boviathan]

I have one. It lives in my brain. Nu Zland - Tuatara 🔍

[@dekelpolak4190]

We need to understand that being at the top of the pyramid of creation means that everything we do trickles down the structure, from top to bottom. When it reaches the bottom, the inanimate level of reality, from which everything grows, it changes it. If we ooze ill-will, it creates negative changes throughout the system, which manifest in increasingly extreme climatic and geological events. In other words, when human relationships go out of balance, everything goes out of balance. When our relations become extreme, everything becomes extreme; when we become violent, everything becomes violent. Each summer, the ramifications of the linkage between our relations and our world become more extreme, until we acknowledge that everything that exists, exists in a connected, hierarchical system and that whoever is at the top determines the state of the rest of the system. It is not as if previously, we were better people than we are today. It is simply that there were fewer people, and therefore fewer elements that exude ill will. Also, relationships between people in the past were less toxic than they are today. While there are fewer wars today than ever, the levels of suspicion and alienation between people are skyrocketing, to the point where people can no longer trust their own family members. As a result, wars between countries are rarer than ever, but divorce rates, domestic violence, and violence in the community, are at an all-time high. Even the internet, which we invented purportedly in order to connect people, is being used to abuse, deceive, and exploit people. The world-wide-web proves that everything we create, we use against others. When there is such a negative element in a system, and that element is at the top of the system, how can the entire system not go awry? Therefore, if we want the weather to cool, the sea-level to drop, and the storms to subside, we must cool the fire and calm the storms between us. Mutual concern, mutual responsibility, or at least the knowledge that we are dependent on each other, are necessary in order to restore balance in our world at all levels, from the ground we walk on to the hatred in our hearts.

[@Free_Falastin2024]

What's with the insane number of ads on this video?

[@0hMyLife]

Gandwana???? What happened to Pangea???

[@ragnarlothbokjr7821]

Nothing

[@leilavargas6038]

There have been many Supercontinents that have existed on earth, not just Pangea. Pangea existed during the Late Paleozoic Era to the late Triassic Period (~ 300-200 million years ago). But the Earth has been around for billions of years. Gondwana (formed ~ 550 million years ago), Kenorland (one of the earliest known, ~ 2.7 billion years ago) and Rodinia (~1 billion years ago), are some other Supercontinents, but there are a few more.

[@anonymouscausethatshowirol828]

This is not the only era with plate tectonics. The earth has been shifting its plates around since it had plates to begin with. Pangea was no more permanent a configuration of landmass than our own continents- it’s just more famous than most others since it was the configuration for the age of the dinosaurs. But before Pangea the earth shifted still, leading to other past continents and supercontinents. Gondwana was one of these. Some of the most ancient continents we may never know about, if all of their continental crust was eroded away or subsumed in continental collisions

[@reinadegrillos]

Parece una iguana.

[@lisajoyaslanis]

Sure looks like his cuz.... Heard they was bangin' together! Nana Lisa. 🤔🦎🐉🐲🇦🇺

[@Langkowski]

What annoys me is when I see T-shirts saying the tuatara is the closest living relative to dinosaurs (or that the hoatzin is the bird closest to the dinosaurs).

[@koogle5410]

Bit none of the birds today are exactly the same as the birds 200 million years ago..that's the difference.. tuatara are exactly the same species as 200 million years ago.

[@Langkowski]

@@koogle5410 That is irrelevant because it doesn't makes the tuatara a closer relative to the dinosaurs for that reason. Your claim is also incorrect. At DNA level the tuatara is evolving faster than any other known animal, even if it physically hasn't changed that much.

[@koogle5410]

@@Langkowski nonsense lol. Tuatara are living dinosaurs.

[@Langkowski]

@@koogle5410 Who is the expert here? You or me? It's definitely not you.

[@koogle5410]

@@Langkowski 🤣🤣🤣 ya nutter lol

[@dondragmer2412]

Except it did not outlive the modern dinosaurs called birds.

[@zac3126]

Not how that gets classified bud

[@anonymouscausethatshowirol828]

@zac3126 it *is* how that gets classified. You classify a group based on taking members that you think belong to a group, seeing what their most recent common ancestor was, and saying that all descendants of that ancestor were part of that group. A T Rex is more closely related to the ancestors of birds from just before the extinction than it is to stegosaurs or any sauropod. If you want to call stegosaurs, sauropods, and theropods like T Rex all dinosaurs, you must call the specific lineage of theropods that became birds dinosaurs as well. Besides, look at a cassowary and tell me that thing isn’t related to velociraptor

[@Dexthesaga]

Na son

[@Brandon.M.Broyles]

Dis dat shid

[@joytrujillo9447]

What a freaking deception from reality.

[@ajunteburns6894]

So is it just me or are these scientists cherry-picking everything out of nature just to make an excuse as to what they consider is evidence?? It seems as if they're making a lot of uncompleted assumptions about the past more like naturalism of the gaps

[@eyethinkthereforeeyeam1781]

What do you mean by this, friend?

[@Langkowski]

@@eyethinkthereforeeyeam1781 Probably some creationist that didn't even bother to see the video

[@koogle5410]

@@Langkowski yup...nutter for sure

[@NightfurySkrill_Joel]

​@@Langkowskihow? Idk if you think this was lying but it's true. They are considered Dinosaurs. They have 0 living relatives in terms of branches from the species. It's also not a Dinosaur(In my opinion) but a living proof of survival. Things didn't all die eve when the disaster hit that ended the rain of Dinosaurs.