World’s Largest Worm Lizard Lived 47 Million Years Ago

World’s Largest Worm Lizard Lived 47 Million Years Ago

Paleontologists have described a new genus and species of trogonophid amphisbaenian (worm lizard) from fossilized specimens found in Tunisia.

Life reconstruction of Terastiodontosaurus marcelosanchezi ready to prey on a large snail of the family Bulimulidae. Image credit: Jaime Chirinos.

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