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2017 Australian Climate and Water Summer Institute
Guest Post: 150 Years Not a Lizard
As the only living evolutionary cousin to over 10,000 species of snakes and lizards (Squamata), the tuatara has played a pivotal role for understanding the evolution and development of vertebrates. Often tagged with the misleading and unhelpful phrase “living fossil”, or “basal lepidsoarus”, the tuatara has attracted an enormous body of research and is a keystone organism for many evolutionary studies of vertebrate anatomy, development, and function.
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