Not the rock group though I did look up why they chose that name and was mostly disappointed with the answer, still an alright name for a rock group as Dave Barry would say. Tuataras are reptiles that are older than dinosaurs, they have been on the planet for 200 million years but sadly are now dying out due to introduced predators on the islands they normally inhabit, but wait there's more that makes them special! They have a third eye which has the components of a regular eye but doesn't see in the same sense as a normal eye it only detects changes in light and it is unknown how that function is used. The good news is even though they are very difficult to care for the Chester Zoo in the UK has successfully bred these reptiles in a foreign land so maybe they will be around another 200 million years.
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