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A PUB QUIZ for animal lovers and big-brained bipeds.

This living creature currently exists as two distinct species. It has a tooth structure in which the teeth are fused directly to the jawbone. The female lays from 5 to 18 eggs once every 4 years and the eggs incubate for 12 to 15 months. Preferred body temperature is between 60 and 70 degrees. It has a spiny crest running from head to tail and looks much like a lizard, but isn’t. It may live for 100 years. If it loses its tail it will grow another. What is it?
[Please ensure your answer meets ALL criteria - that's not to much to ask is it?]

Posted - January 19, 2018
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  • 14795
    Does it live on the Galápagos Islands and eat lichen underwater......?
      January 19, 2018 2:32 PM MST
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  • 14795
    Tuataras ....of New Zealand ...north island.....Kind  of a living fossils that goes back to the age of the Dino'saws 
      January 20, 2018 8:48 AM MST
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  • 72
    Did that correct information come from your store of knowledge or from some external source Nice?
      February 17, 2018 10:24 AM MST
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  • 14795
    From a past memory and as an avid viewer of David Attenborough documentaries  plus researching on the internet I finally found it.......I knew I'd seen it before somewhere and it took a while to find....

    I find all of nature fascinating and I always wondered what branch of  creatures the human race evolved from 
      February 17, 2018 10:45 AM MST
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  • 14795
    Galapagos Iguanas.......! 
      January 19, 2018 2:37 PM MST
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  • 14795
    The Echidna of Australia ? 
      January 20, 2018 8:24 AM MST
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  • 14795
    Crested Salamander 
      January 20, 2018 8:30 AM MST
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  • 7939
    No idea, but I'll be watching for the answer. 
      January 19, 2018 4:05 PM MST
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  • 10052
    Following....

    The incubation period... I can't find my way around it! 
      January 19, 2018 8:06 PM MST
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  • 72
    Don't worry Savvy. We have the ability to stamp out the whole population of them if we decide they are becoming a nuisance or are surplus to human requirements. So the problem may simply disappear. Actually, I am working on the extermination plan right now, before some other group has this uncomfortable conundrum hurled at them.
      February 17, 2018 10:30 AM MST
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  • 10052
    Yeah, humans are the absolute worst. :(
      February 17, 2018 10:46 AM MST
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  • 44617
    The closest thing I can find is the tuatara,but there is only one specie and one sub-specie. It meets the other criteria.
      January 20, 2018 6:37 AM MST
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  • 10052
    Very cool, that must be the correct answer! Good job. 


      January 21, 2018 3:58 PM MST
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  • 44617
    Research...first thing I thought of. Thank you.
      January 21, 2018 5:38 PM MST
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  • 72
    Yes, recently reclassified as species with a separate sub species. But hold that thought . . .  
      February 17, 2018 10:34 AM MST
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