An international team of researchers has discovered a new fossil worm lizard species in Tunisia. Terastiodontosaurus marcelosanchezi is the largest known species of the Amphisbaenia group, with a ...

The world's largest worm lizard: a new giant trogonophid (Squamata: Amphisbaenia) with extreme dental adaptations from the Eocene of Chambi, Tunisia.

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The study found that carbon dioxide may have been less than 1000 parts per million, or ppm, during the Earth's early Eocene period. This runs counter to thinking that concentration levels were as ...

Real-life lizard king named for Doors' Jim Morrison University of Nebraska-Lincoln paleontologist Jason Head holds a fossil and a fossil cast from the jaw of the Eocene lizard Barbaturex morrisoni.

Using the Eocene Period climate model, researchers deduced that as carbon dioxide levels increase, our planet’s climate sensitivity increases as well. This means that as our atmosphere chemically ...

A 6ft-long lizard species that roamed South East Asia some 36-40 million years ago is named after The Doors singer Jim Morrison.

Climate researchers focus on the early Eocene, a so-called "super greenhouse" period, to better understand how the Earth historically responds to changes in carbon dioxide levels, and to help make ...