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Experts Discover 50 Million Years Giant Fossil, Largest Known Worm Lizard Species Ever to Have Lived

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Researchers found fossils of what they believe to be a new species of prehistoric animal "worm lizard" in North Africa .

The species has been named Terastiodontosaurus marcelosanchezi and reportedly lived around 50 million years ago in the Eocene epoch.

The creature is the largest of its kind found by researchers.