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A prominent early mention, a Babylonian cuneiform tablet titled "The Legend of the Worm" (sometimes erroneously dated to Sumerian times [3]), recounts how the tooth worm drinks the blood and eats the roots of the teeth – causing caries and periodontitis: "After Anu [had created heaven], Heaven had created [the earth], The earth had created ...
Gongylonema pulchrum was first named and presented with its own species by Molin in 1857. The first reported case was in 1850 by Dr. Joseph Leidy, when he identified a worm "obtained from the mouth of a child" from the Philadelphia Academy (however, an earlier case may have been treated in patient Elizabeth Livingstone in the seventeenth century [2]).
T. gregarium fossil (part and counterpart). Amateur collector Francis Tully [] found the first of these fossils in 1955 in a fossil bed known as the Mazon Creek formation.He took the strange creature to the Field Museum of Natural History, but paleontologists were stumped as to which phylum Tullimonstrum belonged in. [7] The species Tullimonstrum gregarium ("Tully's common monster"), as these ...
Amphisbaenia / æ m f ɪ s ˈ b iː n i ə / (called amphisbaenians or worm lizards) is a group of typically legless lizards, [2] comprising over 200 extant species. Amphisbaenians are characterized by their long bodies, the reduction or loss of the limbs, and rudimentary eyes.
Researchers have uncovered fossils of giant predator worms, some of Earth’s earliest carnivorous animals that roamed the seas 518 million years ago. ... even know existed until they found the ...
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Scientists discovered a 520-million-year-old fossilized larva with brains and guts intact, offering unprecedented insights into early arthropod evolution.
A tooth whorl found in Kazakhstan preserved radial scratch marks; the whorl was also found near several wide, tuberculated teeth similar to those of the putative caseodontoid Campodus. Lebedev's reconstruction presented a cartilage-protected tooth whorl in a symphysial position at the front of the long lower jaw.