This lovely beaded Christmas Decoration features New Zealand's living dinosaur, the Tuatara.

The Tuatara is a reptile, the only survivor of a group of reptiles that were around at the same time as the dinosaurs.  Because they breed slowly and are endangered, tuataras are now only found on New Zealand's off-shore islands, where they are predator free.

If the earth continues to warm from climate change, tuatara could potentially die out.  The sex of a hatched tuatara depends on the temperature of the soil around the eggs.  At 18 degrees Celsius, the hatched tuatara will be female.  At just a few degrees more, the hatched tuatara will be male.