Apr 1, 2025 10:45 PM
https://www.sciencefocus.com/nature/this...ng-weirder
INTRO: Sometimes evolution produces an organism so weird and wonderfully different to anything that we know of that scientists are stumped. Enter the Tully monster, a soft-bodied sea creature that swam in the muddy estuaries of what’s now Illinois, around 300 million years ago.
It was discovered in 1955, by an amateur fossil collector called Francis Tully, who was picking through the Mazon Creek fossil beds in the northeast of the state.
Torpedo-shaped, with a triangular tail fin and teeth on the end of its long, bendy proboscis, the Tully monster looked as though someone had stabbed it through the back with a skewer, and then stuck eyes on each end.
It was, and I’m using the appropriate scientific term here, absolutely bonkers... (MORE - details)
No One Knows What The Tully Monster Actually Was ... https://youtu.be/W-7O03GHOeo
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INTRO: Sometimes evolution produces an organism so weird and wonderfully different to anything that we know of that scientists are stumped. Enter the Tully monster, a soft-bodied sea creature that swam in the muddy estuaries of what’s now Illinois, around 300 million years ago.
It was discovered in 1955, by an amateur fossil collector called Francis Tully, who was picking through the Mazon Creek fossil beds in the northeast of the state.
Torpedo-shaped, with a triangular tail fin and teeth on the end of its long, bendy proboscis, the Tully monster looked as though someone had stabbed it through the back with a skewer, and then stuck eyes on each end.
It was, and I’m using the appropriate scientific term here, absolutely bonkers... (MORE - details)
No One Knows What The Tully Monster Actually Was ... https://youtu.be/W-7O03GHOeo