Researchers in Tunisia found the largest “worm lizard” that has ever lived ... The Terastiodontosaurus showed an “extreme dental morphology, including one massive tooth on the maxilla ...

700BC. Wellcome Library, London. One of the earliest ways of thinking about tooth decay was the idea of little worms or de-mons burrowing away in the teeth. The Sumerians (the squeamish among you ...

Unlike today's predominantly subterranean worm lizards, this species may also have been a surface dweller. The fossil shows extreme dental features, including strong jaws and a specialized tooth ...