Tuatara 

I'm still trying to figure it out too.

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"You know what else is cool? today's password. simple riddle, written by rosianna and me. in YD's cap when seeking warmth in a hurry, or randomly when you want a smile, or the impression of one it's what i'm making now." Now what?

YD=Yankee Doodle, so the first word is feather. Can you think of anything else?

They seem like cryptic crossword questions. Or at least the second line does.

Not seeing an obvious next step though

Yep. Not sure where to go from here.

Ello :p

discord gang only, so far. :D

Heyhey!

scroll waaaaaay down to the comments from three years ago.

You know what else is cool? today's password. simple riddle, written by rosianna and me. in YD's cap when seeking warmth in a hurry, or randomly when you want a smile, or the impression of one it's what i'm making now.

thank you for this incredible procrastination tool. (I should be doing my homework)

Is it what you are *literally* making right now? Or metaphorically?

@vlogbrothers RU-vid is being stupid and "Read more" isn't working for me, and I cant see the riddle in your original comment.

"in YD's cap when seeking warmth in a hurry, or randomly when you want a smile, or the impression of one it's what i'm making now."

so is itsatuatara dot com

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Doug Mangum the fact that you use the word y'all tells me that you're probably from the American South well so am I please stop acting like the rest of us are idiots. I think what they mean by Mainland is the main South Island and the main North Island since those are the two largest Islands in New Zealand

Tuatara can ONLY be found in New Zealand, the mainland is mostly the North Island

Yep 2020 lol and Kia Ora

There are plants too. Like Ginkgo biloba and different species of ferns! :D

true but I was mainly refering to mammals and marine life.

Tiger shark? how is it a living "dinosaur"? It hasnt even been around that long, its species is a few million years old, but that really isnt very long at all.

Oh I never knew that thanks.

Christopher Buckley There are dinosaurs all around you, we just call them birds now.

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I have been looking for this clue for about half an hour :-) true, it is not fair! not all viewers are american

***** Dinosaurs for example have 3 toes not 5 like these ones. you can just read the wikipedia articles on dinosaurs and tuataras and compare en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinosaur en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuatara

***** I know, if you would read the 2 wikis I posted later you would know that they are still no dinosaurs.

***** Dinosaurs are archosaurs. Tuataras are lepidosaurs. They are on opposite ends of diapsida. Birds are living dinosaurs. Tuataras are not.

***** Seems you're fundamentally right in that the leg structure is a taxonomic trait defining dinosaurs, but it is a nested one. They are *archosaurs* with an erect rather than splayed leg posture. This is why they are even related more closely to crocodiles and alligators than the tuatara, because crocodilians are the other main branch of archosauria. The exact taxonomic classification of pterosaurs seems to still be hotly debated due to current lack of more transitional forms. As for dimetrodon, it's not a dinosaur, but it wouldn't be one even IF it had an erect leg posture, because it's a synapsid. That puts it more in line with basal mammals than dinosaurs.

They are just a prehistoric sub group that branched off from dinosaurs, the modern descendants of dinosaurs are birds all dinosaurs otherwise are extinct.

The 4th is video but I can't figure out the 2nd and 3rd!

Olivia The Fangirl ohhh, right so now just the second and third, you got any idea of where to start?

I'm pretty sure the third word is cheese, like "say cheese"

Katherine Benson you are a genius, right just one more now.

Ohhhh that's good! I wouldn't have thought of that. But no I am stumped, I am going in between comments seeing if anyone else left a clue

Gavin Starkey 19 tuataras have been around for 200 million years

I have a leopard gecko but I'm looking for more reptiles

Crow22Darkness Even still, surely this species has seen harder circumstances if it has been around for millions of years. I know this introduction of species is unnatural, but a species as old as the Tuatara must have seen hard times before, right?

mlk960 Probably, but never has hard as the last 800 years. They never had to face great predator threats since all those came in due to human activity, as you know the human factor is always the greatest threat to any ecosystem. Take the domestic animals and rats away and these animals will flourish again, never going to fully restore on the main islands though. Still, respect to NZ's governement for taking the hard ask upon them to preserve thousands of unique species like the tuatara.

mlk960 Explain other hard times though . Think of it like this ,You go 200 million years with no natural predators then you suddenly get thousands of cat and dogs and ferrets which eat your eggs and humans which destroy your habitat ,combined with a very slow sexual maturity this is why they are endangered .If there where predators on new zealand beforehand there would be no kiwi ,no moa , no tuatara or no tui .This is exactly why flightless birds existed because of New Zealand's isolation and lack of predators .

dimetilldeath So much natural phenomena occurs over 200 million years. Need one example? Whatever killed off the dinosaurs. Most likely it was severe climate change. If this thing was durable enough to survive what supposedly killed off most of the worlds species, how can it not survive the introduction of new species? I know it is drastic to artificially introduce species, but nature can be just as much so over a period that long.

mlk960 Well first off, no one gave a definitive proof and conclusion of what happened over 65 millions ago, so we can only compare speculation with present facts. Most likely it was caused by many factors though, maybe asteroid(s) sparking violant geological activity triggering tsunamis, volcanos --> movement/creation of continents, creation of new land, blackened sky with volcanic ash leading to a worldwide cooldown which reptiles are extra weak against, killing most likely 95% of all reptiles, especially the enormous to medium ones (the big ones always go first). Possible giving cause to evolution of hair and feathers --> mammals and birds. In any case, I doubt New Zealand exsisted the way it does now back then, not to mention the animals who lived there...maybe tuatara did exist (small and isolated enough) but no doubt your 'hard times' will have caused it to adept and evolve to make it to our present day.