Oh! You didn't look away fast enough, did you?
Headline: Ancient Sex Lizard Makes Babies
The National Geographic, or NatGeo, tells us this New Zealand tuatara (the one on top), a rare direct descendant of dinosaurs that walked the Earth 225 million years ago, is 111 and just fathered 11 babies.
Tuataras can live to be 250 years old, so really, he's only middle aged.
His keepers thought he was "out of the mating game" because he was very grumpy and attacked other tuataras who came near him -- even females -- until they removed a cancerous tumor from his genitals.
Yep, that would do it, all right.
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