Crunch! Crunch! Crunch!

The tuatara is an unusual reptile that lives on New Zealand.

How unusual? Well, the tuatara can live to be over 100 years old AND it has a primitive "third eye" at the top of its skull.

Wild!

But the reason that the tuatara is on Ultra-Gross! is because of its eating habits. It loves to chow down on gigantic crickets called wetas. (That's a weta to the left.)

And according to a tuatara researcher, “Walking through the forest at night, you can hear the tuataras eating — crunch, crunch, crunch.”

Sheesh!

Top photo from here,

cricket from the New York Times.