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

喙头是新西兰最具标志性的爬行动物。

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

所以，新西兰是唯秧鸡和喙头的栖息地。

For your consideration, there's the tuatara!

为您考虑，有！

As for the sphenodontians, only one species is still around: the tuatara of New Zealand.

至于棘齿动物，只有种物种仍然存在：新西兰的。

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

这些爬行动物在 2 亿多年前繁衍生息，但是其家族中仅存的最后员。

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

2008 年的项研究比较了现代和化石喙头骨骼的线粒体 DNA。

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

由于其古老的血统，通常被称为“活化石”哦，伙计，我是活化石！

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

它的骨头可能类似于侏罗纪亲戚的骨头，但在分子水平上， ——就像我们所有人样！

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(或生物学的“目”)的爬虫类中，有蛇和、乌龟和陆龟、鳄鱼和短吻鳄以及虫——种现存于新西兰的海。

Show me your best tuatara I just got a neck cramp This reptile from New Zealand looks straight-up like a lizard, but it actually belongs to an entirely separate group of reptiles called Rynchocephalians.

给我看看你最好的 我刚脖子抽筋 这种来自新西兰的爬行动物看起来像，但它实际上属于个完全独立的爬行动物群， 称为 Rynchocephalians。