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The Shelby Tuatara (say Twoo-TAH-rah) is named after a New Zealand reptile that's directly descended from the dinosaurs – it's a Maori word meaning “peaks on the back”. But what makes this particular gecko special is that it has the fastest-evolving THUNDER LIZARD: 'The Tuatara possesses the fastest evolving DNA in the world, and amongst [...]