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Henry was named after Henry VIII and according to tuatara keeper Lindsay Hazley, "The plan was for Henry to have lots of wives." [2] A cancerous tumour was removed from Henry's genital region in 2008, which caused Henry's libido to come back. [3] In 2009 Henry became a father for the first time at the age of about 111.
On average, the tuatara lives for 60 years, but it can live to be older than 100. The oldest known living tuatara is Henry, a 130-year-old member of his species living in a New Zealand animal reserve.
Tuatara probably have the slowest growth rates of any reptile, [24] continuing to grow larger for the first 35 years of their lives. [9] The average lifespan is about 60 years, but they can live to be well over 100 years old; [9] tuatara could be the reptile with the second longest lifespan after tortoises.
Tuatara enclosure. The tuatarium facility, built in 1974 and expanded to 200 m 2 in 1990, houses over 50 live, individual tuatara ranging from new babies to the famous Henry. [2] Henry, who joined the museum in 1970, is thought to have been born around the year 1900, and holds the world record for the tuatara kept longest in captivity. [3]
The Tuatha Dé Danann as depicted in John Duncan's Riders of the Sidhe (1911). The Tuatha Dé Danann (Irish: [ˈt̪ˠuə(hə) dʲeː ˈd̪ˠan̪ˠən̪ˠ], meaning "the folk of the goddess Danu"), also known by the earlier name Tuath Dé ("tribe of the gods"), [1] are a supernatural race in Irish mythology.
Sphenodontidae is a family within the reptile group Rhynchocephalia, comprising taxa most closely related to the living tuatara (Sphenodon punctatus).Historically the taxa included within Sphenodontidae have varied greatly between analyses, and the group has lacked a formal definition. [2]
Early Christian Ireland began after the country emerged from a mysterious decline in population and standards of living that archaeological evidence suggests lasted from c. 100 to 300 AD. During this period, called the Irish Dark Age by Thomas Charles-Edwards , the population was entirely rural and dispersed, with small ringforts the largest ...
The Gaelic Bible was first printed by the Bible Society in 1807 when the British and Foreign Bible Society (BFBS) printed a corrected edition of the SSPCK text. In 1826 a revision of the Bible was made by the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland and was printed with the Metrical Psalms Sailm Dhaibhidh by SSPCK and BFBS. From 1872 the text ...