" #TullyMonster Mash"
By Bobby "Boris" Pickett
and the Crypt Kicker Five

(The weirdest-looking of all the #Fossils, btw, and the Official State #Fossil of #Illinois.)

#FossilASong
#HashtagGames

https://story.illinoisstatemuseum.org/content/all-our-own-tully-monster

@KateShaw 's latest episode is a great episode about that fabulous Carboniferous weirdo, the Tully Monster!
https://strangeanimalspodcast.blubrry.net/2023/07/31/episode-339-the-tully-monster/

#fossils
#TullyMonster
#problematica
#Carboniferous

Episode 339: The Tully Monster! | Strange Animals Podcast

Ich fand gemein, dass die Leute nicht nur im #Deutschlandfunk zu einem (eingestandenermaßen hässlichen) Tier aus dem Oberkarbon „Monster“ gesagt haben („#Tullymonster“). Und darüber bin ich auf ein Paper von Tomoyuki Mikami gestoßen und auf Chordatiere und andere Naturwunder:
https://blog.tfiu.de/von-tullymonstren-und-den-geschwistern-der-wirbeltiere.html
#zuengeln
Engelszüngeln: Von Tullymonstren und den Geschwistern der Wirbeltiere

Mysteriöses Meeresmonster

Svenna Triebler: Mysteriöse Wesen aus ­grauer Vorzeit

jungle.world
Has the “Tully monster” mystery finally been solved after 65 years?
"Based on multiple lines of evidence, the vertebrate hypothesis of the Tully monster is untenable."
https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/04/has-the-tully-monster-mystery-finally-been-solved-after-75-years/ #TullyMonster #fossil
Has the “Tully monster” mystery finally been solved after 75 years?

"Based on multiple lines of evidence, the vertebrate hypothesis of the Tully monster is untenable."

Ars Technica
Rätsel um das "Tully-Monster" gelöst

Lange rätselten Forschende, ob es sich beim "Tully-Monster" um ein Wirbeltier oder Wirbellosen handelt. Forschende glauben nun, den Fall gelöst zu haben.

geo.de
Scientists Are Arguing About The Messed Up 'Tully Monster' All Over Again

Nobody really knows what a Tully monster is.

ScienceAlert

New details of Tully monster revealed
https://phys.org/news/2023-04-tully-monster-revealed.html

Three-dimensional anatomy of the Tully monster casts doubt on its presumed vertebrate affinities https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/pala.12646

"#TullyMonster had segmentation in its head region that extended from its body. This characteristic is not known in any vertebrate lineage, suggesting a nonvertebrate affinity"

New details of Tully monster revealed

For more than half a century, the Tully monster (Tullimonstrum gregarium), an enigmatic animal that lived about 300 million years ago, has confounded paleontologists, with its strange anatomy making it difficult to classify. Recently, a group of researchers proposed a hypothesis that Tullimonstrum was a vertebrate similar to cyclostomes (jawless fish like lamprey and hagfish). If it was, then the Tully monster would potentially fill a gap in the evolutionary history of early vertebrates. Studies so far have both supported and rejected this hypothesis.

Phys.org
Rätsel ums Tully-Monster geht weiter. Mysteriöses Fossil aus dem Karbonzeitalter ist doch kein frühes Wirbeltier. #Tullimonstrum #TullyMonster #Evolution #Fossil #Biologie
https://www.scinexx.de/news/biowissen/raetsel-ums-tully-monster-geht-weiter/
Rätsel ums Tully-Monster geht weiter

Mysteriöser Exot: Das rätselhafte Urzeit-Wesen Tullimonstrum gregarium ist offenbar doch kein Bindeglied der frühen Wirbeltier-Evolution. Stattdessen muss

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