Record-Breaking Giant Worm Lizard From 50 Million Years Ago Discovered
The new species would have resembled the iconic "sandworms" from the science fiction franchise "Dune", one researcher said.
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World’s largest worm lizards’ teeth crushed snail shells 50 million years ago
A brand new species and genus of a legless reptile has been identfied in a fossil bed in Tunisia that slithered at an ...
Fossil discovery reveals giant worm lizard with snail-cracking jaws
An international team of researchers has discovered a new fossil worm lizard species in Tunisia. Terastiodontosaurus ...
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205-million-year-old fossil rewrites the history of modern lizard lineage
Discovered in a quarry near Bristol, this 205-million-year-old fossil is the oldest modern-type lizard ever found.  This ...
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New Worm Lizard Species Just Dropped – And It Looks Thoroughly Bizarre
Sometimes, nature just doesn’t know what it wants to be. There’s no greater example of that than the worm lizards, and a ...
50-million-year-old ‘worm lizard’ — the ‘largest’ ever — found as new species in Tunisia
Researchers found the right side of the 50-million-year-old amphisbaenian’s upper jaw and the left side of its lower jaw, ...
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50-million-year-old ‘worm lizard’ — the ‘largest’ ever — found as new species in Tunisia
that are long and thin like a worm, but covered in a hard, scaly exterior like a lizard and have a head similar to a snake. Related species are still living today, and a few amphisbaenians have ...
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Worm-like creature with two little arms
It's known as a Bipes biporus or the five-toed worm lizard. Their little hands are perfect for burrowing underground. But, what exactly are they? They're a reptile native to the Baja California ...