Show new zealand lizard able to stop breathing for hour how long can you hold your breath half a minute is easy one minute difficult two minutes possible but this needs a lot of practice yet the two foot long tuatara can stop breathing for or a whole hour and appear none the worse for it this relic of the prehistoric 1 ages says tit bits magazine is halt half liz ard half crocodile and exists in me new zea zealand I 1 and it has three eyes one on a blind one at the top of the skull stomach plates like a tortoise soft spikes along its spine it eats just one snail a day and practically never moves unless disturbed its eggs take a year to hatch |