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 ...

The long-lost worm is Haplosyllis anthogorgicola, a species of bristle worm, or polychaete. It typically measures no more than 0.24 inches (6 millimeters), and it burrows inside branching ...

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 ...

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Credit: Jaime Chirinos. Scientists have unearthed a fascinating fossil in Tunisia—a giant worm lizard species with jaws strong enough to crack snail shells. Named Terastiodontosaurus ...

Researchers from the Schmidt Ocean Institute discovered the worm while using their 7,055-pound robotic explorer ROV SuBastian. They sent the underwater robot to search on the ocean floor and this ...

The long-lost worm is Haplosyllis anthogorgicola, a species of bristle worm, or polychaete. It typically measures no more than 0.24 inches (6 millimeters), and it burrows inside branching gorgonian ...