Giant Fossil, Largest Known Worm Lizard Species Ever to Have Lived Recently researchers uncovered fossils of what they ...

"The species that required higher oxygen levels was more likely to crawl out of its burrow during rainy conditions," Whitman ...

Animal diversity expanded alongside novel burrowing strategies and colonization of the water column. Scientists debate the ...

marcelosanchezi is the largest known worm lizard species ever to have lived, with an estimated length likely exceeding 3 feet. Worm lizards, or amphisbaenians, are a group of typically limbless, ...

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They pull plant residues down into the mouth of their burrow, where the residues soften and can be eaten at a later time. Nightcrawlers construct middens over the mouth of their burrows. Middens are a ...

The smooth snake is an exception. Snakes in Britain have overlapping scales. Slow worms don't. 'This is probably related to the slow worm's burrowing behaviour,' says Mark. 'It's hard to move ...

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 ...

When it's really cold outside in winter or baking hot in the summer, worms are able to survive by burrowing deep into the soil - at the same time escaping from light, which they hate.

The sandy mounds are worm casts, effectively the poo, of a marine worm called a lugworm. Common on sandy and muddy-sandy shores around the coast of Britain, they live in burrows under the wet sand. A ...

It’s a giant carnivorous worm that can grow over a metre long. With dagger sharp jaws and lightning fast reactions, it sits in a burrow waiting to ambush passing prey. Bobbits will take even ...