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[nosyparker]

According to a March 30th article from New Scientist, the tuatara, a New Zealand lizard sort of lizard-snake cross LET'S JUST SAY REPTILE, is the fastest-evolving animal known.

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[soulrockcandy]

I hummed the Pokemon evolution music while reading the first part. *WINNER*

That sounds like an awesome fucking lizard though. Do want as overlords.

[draike]

Jolteon shoops da whoop! *saved*

[99catsaway]

That is fascinating!

[phoenixineohp]

Penis-less? How.... then what..... I guess it takes them 15 years to sort that bit out too.

[nosyparker]

Apparently they spray their sperm on the eggs through a vent. SEXY.

[bovidaeloony]

Haha, sorry. :P I posted, and then thought "Wait, I should probably double check that!" (because my vertebrate evolution prof might just kill me if I get that one wrong) and, as so often happens when I'm trying to look something up, I forgot to come back and re-reply. :P

[skalja]

"Lizard/snake cross"? What's wrong with the word "reptile"? :P

[nosyparker]

Well I don't know, why do we say manbearpig instead of AWESOME?

No, I don't know, I just put it there because it's equally related to lizards and snakes. It's a tweenie.

[mokele]

Technically not: snakes evolved from lizards, with their nearest cousins being monitor lizards. To put it into SAT terms - snake is to lizard as bird is to dinosaur (there were lots of dinosaurs groups, but only one group that evolved into birds). Tuataras are the 'cousins' of squamates (lizards + snakes).

[nosyparker]

Well, fair enough! Reptiles aren't really my subject of expertise, I just happened to find this little dude interesting from my limited perspective. I will edit again!