Tuatara
/tuːəˈtɑːɹə/
"Tuatara" in a Sentence (1 examples)
In New Zealand the dinosaurs had perished 65 million years before, as they had elsewhere on the globe; but the sphenodons or tuataras who had been their contemporaries from Jurassic times persisted, in New Zealand but nowhere else, for reasons that remain obscure.