Tuatara: Diet and Dentition

Tuatara: Diet and Dentition

From Ten Things I Like About... Podcast by Kiersten Gibizov

February 5, 2026 · 8 min · Episode 143

About this episode

This episode explores the diet and dental structure of the tuatara, a unique reptile.

Summary: You are what you eat, right? Find out what tuatara eat and how they eat it in the seventh episode of Tuatara. For my hearing impaired followers, a complete transcript of this podcast follows the show notes on Podbean Show Notes: “Tuatara” Royal Ontario Museum, https://collections.rom.on.ca “Microstructure of dental hard tissues and bone in the Tuatara denture, Sphenodon punctatus,” by J.A. Kierser, T. Tkatchenko, M. C. Dean, M. E. H. Jones, and N. J. Nelson. Front Oral Biol. 2009:13:80-85. https://pubme.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19828975 Music written and performed by Katherine Camp Transcript (Piano music plays) Kiersten - This is Ten Things I Like About…a ten minute, ten episode podcast about unknown or misunderstood wildlife. (Piano music stops) Kiersten - Welcome to Ten Things I Like About… This is a podcast about misunderstood or unknown creatures in nature. Some we’ll find right out side our doors and some are continents away but all are fascinating. This podcast will focus ten, ten minute episodes on different animals and their amazing characteristics. Please join me on this extraordinary journey, you won’t regret it. We have made it to the seventh episode of Tuatara and…

People in this episode

Host: Kiersten Gibizov

Topics covered

  • tuatara
  • diet
  • dentition
  • wildlife
  • carnivores
  • invertebrates

Keywords

  • tuatara
  • diet
  • dentition
  • wildlife podcast
  • carnivores
  • invertebrates

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Royal Ontario Museum

Books & works: Microstructure of dental hard tissues and bone in the Tuatara denture, Sphenodon punctatus

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