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By the time she's fully grown, she will have more than ...
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The giant worm is ground down while still alive.
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The ability to shed their tail when attacked
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New Zealand's extraordinary giant invertebrates are fou...
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The whole idea is the tail keeps wriggling,
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It's a phenomenon known as island gigantism.
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The research team carefully release their male wetapunga.
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Tuatara were once plentiful throughout New Zealand,
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To fully appreciate the scale of these insects,
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The arrival of humans and introduced predators nearly wiped ...
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Their eggs were easy targets for introduced rodents.
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The fossil records show that the moment rats arrived,
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What caused New Zealand's animals to evolve to be so mu...
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In its nearest neighbour, Australia,
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Little Barrier is one of the few places
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A breeding programme was started in the 1990s
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The threat of extinction was very real.
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Tuatara have been here over 200 million years
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To understand the giants that evolved in New Zealand,
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A very different land,
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But these animals survived
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How did tuatara survive the catastrophic events
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Just like New Zealand,
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In both countries,
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What have we got here? One of the females here
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Although similar forces are at work in both nations,
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We'll dig them up, because if we leave them here and th...
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Naracoorte, in South Australia, is famous for two things.
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Cannibalism is a common survival strategy among reptiles.
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Great care is taken when removing the eggs from the burrow.
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When the owners of a local vineyard were excavating,
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Richard will transport them from here to an incubator.
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Underneath the vineyard,
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They can take a little bump, but of course,
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It was found about 12 years ago,
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Palaeontologist Dr Liz Reed and her partner Steve
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These precious eggs
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The vineyard owner sealed up the entrance to protect it,
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And we're now at the point where we can go in and excav...
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The cool New Zealand climate forces the young
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It's the longest incubation period observed in a reptil...
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So, I just write a little number on them for records
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Dr Reed is a palaeontologist from the University of Adelaide...
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Her team hopes to find the remains of a group of giant anima...
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Though tuatara can lay up to 19 eggs at a time,
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It really is like you're digging up treasure, isn'...
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Australia is a land ruled by marsupials,
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To think that this is holding
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In Australia,
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Some are fierce predators, like the infamous Tasmanian devil...
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Thanks to Little Barrier's breeding programme,
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Others are leaf-eaters,
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Over only a few years, the population has increased to nearl...
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The red kangaroo is the largest marsupial alive on earth.
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So, that head start just gives them that little bit of extra...
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But not long ago,
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Tuatara, that means "spiny back" in Maori.
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It's the bit for me that just links them straight to th...
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The team believes the remains of these mega-marsupials
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He's like a mini stegosaurus or something. (LAUGHS) Yea...
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Its spine is made of keratin, the same material as fingernai...
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And while it might look like a miniature dinosaur,
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Thirty million years ago,
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From its third eye, unique teeth, long life and slow lifesty...
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Sediments turned into limestone,
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Over millions of years,
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Researching this ancient reptile's competition
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The first would be discovered in an unassuming stream bed
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These holes became deadly traps for animals living on the su...
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When Liz and Steve saw the main fossil chamber
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Now they will excavate them
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So, when we first came in,
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The Maungataniwha Forest is in New Zealand's central No...
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Accessing its remote and rugged landscape is not easy.
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Geologist Julian Thompson and fossil enthusiast Pete Shore
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Desperate animals who had fallen into the cave would have tr...
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The ancestors of the tuatara were called Rhynchocephalians,
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Claw scratches line the cave walls,
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(GROWLS)
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Every square inch will be painstakingly studied.
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Some people might think it looks quite tedious and boring,
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180 million years ago, the Southern Hemisphere
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So, I often think of it like a jigsaw puzzle,
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But what I'm digging up are pieces of history,
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Over millions of years, Gondwana broke apart
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So, for me, that is so intriguing,
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Steve has found the skull of an extinct kangaroo,
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By the time New Zealand separated,
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Yet for years, no fossil record of dinosaurs
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Many scientists thought when New Zealand split from Gondwana
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