It wasn’t just a new species, it was “the world’s largest worm lizard,” researchers said. The species was named Terastiodontosaurus marcelosanchezi, or the Marcelo Sánchez giant trogonophid.

"The numbers we're seeing [with Sober] are just huge. This is the largest e-mail worm outbreak of the year so far," wrote Miko Hyppnen, chief research officer of F-Secure, in an online alert.