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#thetullymonster #tullymonster #cryptid #strangebuttrue #prehistoric #tullymonstrum #webcomic #comics #wtf #whatisthatthing #whatisthisthing #uselessfacts #uselessfactsbadlydrawn
" #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.)
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/
Bisschen Monster-Lektüre gefällig? https://jungle.world/artikel/2023/19/mysterioeses-meeresmonster
#Paläontologie: Das Rätsel um das "#TullyMonster" ist gelöst
https://www.geo.de/natur/tierwelt/raetsel-um-das--tully-monster--geloest-33408566.html
Scientists Are Arguing About The Messed Up ' #TullyMonster ' All Over Again
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"
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.