Search results for "Tuatara" - New World Encyclopedia

Squamata (scaled reptiles) is the most diverse order of extant reptiles, comprised of the lizards and snakes and characterized a flexible jaw ...

orders: Testudines (turtles), Rhynchocephalia (tuatara), Crocodilia (crocodilians) and Squamata (lizards, snakes, and worm lizards). Thus, worm lizards ...

Examples of "living fossils" include the tuatara, the nautilus, the horseshoe crab, the coelacanth, the ginkgo, the Wollemi pine, and the metasequoia ...