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What adaptaitons have enabeled the tuatara to live for 200 years?
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The longest recorded lifespan of a tuatara is about 80 years. Most authorities think 100 years is possible but more than that seems to be pure speculation. Reptiles in general can have longer life spans than similarly sized mammals, and this is probably down to their metabolisms' being much slower so that cell damage is less likely to occur. I think you may mean 'Why has the species remained unchanged for 200 million years?' This is because their environment didn't change very much until very recently, so there was no evolutionary pressure to change.
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