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These tiny reptilians, today found only in New Zealand, may look like shrunken down dinosaurs. And they essentially are! Tuataras are the last surviving members of the family of reptiles that first appeared in the Triassic period around 250 million years ago. It's likely only due to their small size that tuataras survived the mass extinction event 65 million years ago that wiped out their dinosaur cousins.
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