The earth cease to amaze you everyday. In Texas, a new species was discovered in a fossil. The species name is Solastella cookei. The worm lizard belongs to a group of reptiles called amphisbaenians. The name is given to the reptile group because their “long bodies and reduced or absent limbs give them an earthworm-like appearance.” The fossil of the worm lizard was discovered on William Cook’s land. The name of the worm lizard , Solastella, was named after the state it was founded in and the landowner. The reasons are because Texas is the lone star state, and it was only one fossil that was found. According to the article, a researcher “found that Solastella lived during the Late Middle Eocene, a geologic period about 40 million years ago,
