Nice one Luke from Nottingham. Doesn't anyone else read? Global Warming is an opportunity for stealth taxes - nothing more. I wish more people would read instead of allow themselves to be spoon fed this rubbish. History is history. It gets hot and then it gets cold! then it gets hot again ........

PJ, East Yorkshire,

more baloney from the 'we are all doomed school of climate warming nutters'. The world wa 15 degrees warmer than now when the dinosaurs ruled, so how come this species survived that. Bit then the neither the authors nor us will be around in 2085 to prove it. The end is nigh or thereabouts, whatever!

Andrew Wakeling, London, uk

so now you have few lizards living on small isolated islands instead of all over australia and new zealand , these cant travel and other populations cant spread to the places that are now devoid of them , and thats why you are rubish

Gerben, i wish i knew where iam, Netherlands

If I remember well, these animals were featured in Sir David Attenborough's wonderful series 'Life in Cold blood'. Intervention to save them would make our descendants grateful, some of them at least.

LN, Bristol,

To Robert Slough,

Of course you are right that the reptiles COULD dig deeper to bury its eggs, but according to the research cited in the above article, the species in question are unlikely to modify their behavior, thus they would be unlikely to dig deeper, it seems.

Jarrett Dawson, Albuquerque, United States

This article is absolute rubbish. Do we really believe that the earths average temperature has not fluctuated greatly over the last 225 million years? How many ice ages, followed by periods of warming, have there been in that time period??!

luke, Nottingham, uk

Why didn't they all turn female during the ice age then? This story is nonsense

Mr Howes, London,

Many species ranges are now so limited even natural climate variations will soon wipe them out.

There are other animals with ranges so small they will soon be wiped out by disease.

The only solution is to increase their range:
1. Allot more land to nature preserves.
2. Transport them to new areas.

Keith S, Winnipeg, Canada

To Alan Wilkinson: read science papers, not politically motivated propaganda websites. You might learn something that's actually true!

Dr Richard Milne, Edinburgh,

Peter Applleton

yes they have a third membrame eyelid but also a third eye wich is less developed and in adult specimens\ covered by pigment and scales , they are vissiblein newborns tough

Gerben, i wish i knew where iam, Netherlands

To allow for any increase in temperature, all a reptile has to do is bury its eggs a little deeper into the sand or soil, where the temperature is that little bit more stable.

Robert, Slough,

The Tuatara's don't have three eyes. There is a membrane (nictitating membrane) that gives the eye an extra eyelid.

Peter, Appleton, Cheshire

After reading the news,I was oppressed beyond discription.Those man-made factories resulted in climate change ,are the main culprits .Governments over all world are abliged to pay their attention to combat this problem. To my mind,it would be a very idea for humans to preserve animal diversity.

Rebecca, shi jiazhuang, China

What rubbish. Temperatures will not rise 4 degrees C by 2085, let alone in southern hemisphere NZ surrounded by ocean. Global temperatures have been flat or falling for a decade and current climate models are based on false cloud sensitivity assumptions: http://tinyurl.com/3hxmb7

Alan Wilkinson, Russell, New Zealand