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Tuatara Time! – Face To Face With A Living Fossil!

Join Joe Hanson as he explores curiosity and illuminates the science behind… well, everything.

Tuatara Time! – Face To Face With A Living Fossil!

Season 6 Episode 3 | 8m 15s

During the 2017 Project For Awesome livestream, I promised I’d make a tuatara video if we hit our fundraising goal, and I’m a man of my word! Little did I know I’d get to meet a tuatara and learn things about a 200 million year old branch of life that would blow my mind. Get ready to meet the chillest reptile, weird living fossil, and star of Turtles All The Way Down… the tuatara.

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