The average lifespan is about 60 years, but they can live to be over 100 years old.
No one knows for certain, but it's believed to be about 60 years. Tuataras CAN live to well over 100.
The length can very greatly, but it averages around 60 years.
Quoted directly from the Wikipedia entry on the species... "...average lifespan is about 60 years, but they can live to be well over 100 years..."
No. The Tuatara is found only in New Zealand.
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New Zealand * Added - The tuatara, also called the sphenodon, still lives in New Zealand.
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Tuatara are terrestrial reptiles, living on land. They lay their eggs in burrows, find their food on land and shelter on land.
The average lifespan is about 60 years, but they can live to be over 100 years old.
The tuatara's tongue is twice as long as it is wide, but it would not be described as "very long".
There is no particular name for a baby tuatara. Newly hatched tuatara are called hatchlings, and tuatara that are not yet adult are simply called juvenile tuatara.
Tuatara are slow breeders, so if they did not have a long lifespan, they would have been unable to survive the arrival of European settlers, or possibly even the arrival of the Maori hundreds of years earlier. Polynesian rats and European rats were both introduced to the islands of New Zealand, and these creatures have devastated tuatara populations on the mainland. Rats steal the tuatara eggs from burrows, and eat the hatchlings. Adult females tuatara only lay eggs every three to four years, so with their eggs being eaten, the tuatara populations have struggled to be maintained.
No. Iguanas and tuatara are quite different species. Whilst both iguanas and tuatara are reptiles, the iguana is a type of lizard, whereas the tuatara is not classified as a lizard.
The tuatara is a reptile.