Word: punctatus
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Dates: during 1952-1952
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Three U.S. zoos, in New York, Chicago and San Diego, will soon have live reptiles that were already old-fashioned when the dinosaurs were still young. Tuataras (Sphenodon punctatus), which look like 2½-ft. lizards but are far more primitive, were plentiful round the world 200 million years ago. Now, almost unchanged, they are found only in New Zealand, that ultimate storehouse for discontinued zoological models...
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