The tuatara is New Zealand's most iconic reptile native.

是新西兰最具标志性爬行动。

WEIR : So, Zealandia is one of the last few places that tuatara or a takahe can relax.

所以，新西兰是唯一一处南秧鸡和栖息地。

For your consideration, there's the tuatara!

供您考虑，有！

So this is the legendary tuatara.

这就是传说中。

Scientists have found that some tuatara DNA appears to be evolving even faster than most mammals.

科学家发现，一些DNA似乎比大多数哺乳动进化速度还要快。

These reptiles thrived over 200 million years ago, but the tuatara is the last remaining member of their family.

这些爬行动在超过2亿年前繁盛，但图阿塔拉是它们家族中唯一幸存成员。

A study in 2008 compared the mitochondrial DNA from both modern and fossil tuatara bones.

一项2008年研究比较了现代和化石楔齿骨骼线粒体DNA。

The plural of tuatara is tuatara.

tuatara 数是 tuatara。

And in case  you're wondering how you make a baby tuatara… you guessed it.

如果你想知道如何生出一只小… … 那你就猜对了。

And I don't want to judge, but I do think that, you know, tuatara are a little more interesting than bacteria.

我不想评判， 但我觉得，你知道， 针尾锦蛇比细菌有趣多了。

Because of its ancient pedigree, the tuatara is often called a " living fossil" Oh man I'm a living fossil!

由于其古老血统，图阿塔拉常被称为“活化石” 哦天哪我是个活化石！

We think tuatara and other non-warm blooded animals use their extra eye to sense the length of the day.

我们认为大蜴和其他非温血动用它们额外眼睛来感知一天长度。

Here's a trait where tuatara are joined by many other reptiles, and even some fish.

这是一个特征，大蜴与许多其他爬行动，甚至一些鱼类一起加入。

You need both to make more tuatara.

你需要两者才能生产出更多。

Many other lizards and frogs have them too, but that eye is more developed in tuatara than in any other species.

许多其他蜴和青蛙也有这种眼睛，但是眼睛比其他任何种眼睛都发达。

You guys remember Amber from our tuatara video?

你们还记得我们大蜴视频中 Amber 吗？

Its bones may resemble those of its Jurassic relatives, but at the molecular level, the tuatara -- like all of us!

它骨骼可能与侏罗纪时期亲戚相似，但在分子层面， tuatara——就像我们所有人一样！

Elderly tuatara end up eating soft foods like slugs and larvae That's just like people, right?

年老最终会吃蛞蝓和幼虫等软食。这就像人类一样，对吗？

Among the several subclasses (or " orders" in biology) of reptiles are snakes and lizards, turtles and tortoises, crocodiles and alligators, and the tuatara, a marine lizard in New Zealand.

在几个亚纲(或生学“目”)爬虫类中，有蛇和蜴、乌龟和陆龟、鳄鱼和短吻鳄以及虫蜴——一种现存于新西兰海蜴。

The Ginkgo tree, platypus, echidna, coelacanths, nautlius, horseshoe crabs… and of course: the tuatara, the sole remaining member of a branch of reptiles that originated 200 million years ago.

银杏树、鸭嘴兽、针鼹、腔棘鱼、鹦鹉螺、鲎… … 当然还有——2 亿年前起源爬行动分支中唯一幸存成员。