Paleontologists have revealed a giant new species of prehistoric "worm lizard" with a powerful bite that is the largest of its kind found to date. The newly identified creature, named ...

More information: Georgios L Georgalis et al, The world's largest worm lizard: a new giant trogonophid (Squamata: Amphisbaenia) with extreme dental adaptations from the Eocene of Chambi ...

But, living organisms such as giant tubeworms, worms and snails were found in hydrothermal vents, which are openings on the seafloor that form where seawater and magma beneath the Earth's crust ...