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    South Canterbury Museum
    Tuatara - "living fossil" - a reptile, not a lizard.Birds native to the areaEarly Maori tribal hutMaori tools of the area

    South Canterbury Museum, Timaru

    28 december 2023, Nya Zeeland ⋅ ☁️ 17 °C

    What's special in this small museum?
    1. The Tuatara specimen = known as the "living fossil", this reptile dates from the dinosaur period. It is the only surviving member of its order dating back 240 million years. It has been reintroduced to Zealandia.
    2. Early Maori settlements in the area.
    3. Early settlers; how they lived in South Canterbury early 1900's.    Läs mer