The sex of many turtles, crocodilians, and other reptiles is determined by the temperature at which their eggs incubate.

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Following the settlement of Aotearoa New Zealand, many native species were wiped from the mainland. It’s a familiar story – one that has affected species like the iconic flightless kākāpō and the ...

"The tuatara is the last surviving species of a reptile group that roamed the earth with the dinosaurs and remarkably, its genome shares features with those of mammals such as the platypus and echidna ...

A hatchling of a rare reptile with lineage dating back to the dinosaur age has been found in the wild on the New Zealand mainland for the first time in 200 years, a wildlife official revealed today.

Reptile experts at the zoo have described the hatching as an amazing event after dedicating several decades to the project. Keeper Isolde McGeorge has taken care of the species at Chester Zoo since ...

The specimen shows that modern tuatara found in New Zealand are little changed from ancestors that lived 190 million years ago. By Jack Tamisiea New Zealand’s tuatara look like somber iguanas. But ...

A three-eyed reptile, which has outlived the dinosaurs, could be wiped out because climate change will turn them all male. The sex of baby tuataras is determined by the temperature of the soil in ...

The baby tuatara was discovered by staff at the Karori Wildlife Sanctuary in the capital, Wellington. It is the first hatchling to be discovered since 200 adults were released in a breeding programme ...

Staff at Chester Zoo have been trying for four decades to get a female tuatara to breed, without any success. However specialist keeper Isolde McGeorge, who has been caring for the species at the zoo ...