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Tullimonstrum, colloquially known as the Tully monster or sometimes Tully's monster, is an extinct genus of soft-bodied bilaterian animal that lived in shallow tropical coastal waters of muddy estuaries during the Pennsylvanian geological period, about 300 million years ago.
Mar 16, 2016 · Found by the dozens in the roughly 300-million-year-old rock of Mazon Creek, Illinois, the Tully Monster was a tiny terror—the largest specimens stretch a little more than a foot long. But they...
Apr 25, 2023 · The state fossil of Illinois is a strange creature with stalked eyes and a long nose-like appendage with teeth, dubbed the " Tully monster ." Specimens typically measure just 15 centimeters...
Mar 16, 2016 · More than 60 years after its discovery, Illinois’ bizarre state fossil —a soft-bodied “monster” that swam in rivers more than 300 million years ago—has been identified as a vertebrate.
The Tully Monster, an oddly configured sea creature with teeth at the end of a narrow, trunk-like extension of its head and eyes that perch on either side of a long, rigid bar, has finally been identified.
Apr 19, 2023 · In the 1950s amateur fossil hunter Francis Tully discovered the ghostly imprint of a torpedo-shaped organism with a large tail fin in the Mazon Creek fossil beds of northeastern Illinois.
Nov 11, 2019 · Tullimonstrum (also known as the Tully Monster), a 300m-year-old fossil discovered in the Mazon Creek fossil beds in Illinois, US, is one such creature.
Apr 17, 2023 · 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...
Mar 17, 2016 · WASHINGTON, March 16 (Reuters) - For more than half a century, scientists have scratched their heads over the nature of an outlandishly bizarre creature dubbed the Tully Monster that flourished...
Jul 11, 2016 · Tully monster, an anomalous, cryptic fossil, was a question mark on the tree of life. Without knowing the animal’s true relatives, it was unclear if the Tully monster was a mere curiosity, or if it was something more – a key divergence point in the history of evolution.
