Tully Monster mystery not a closed case, scientists say

UPI ^ | 20 Feb 2017 | Brooks Hays

[DUMBGRUNT]

"If you're going to make extraordinary claims, you need extraordinary evidence," said researcher Lauren Sallan.

Last year, two scientific papers claimed to have solved the Tully mystery. According to the two studies, the Tully Monster was definitively a vertebrate

But the last thing that the Tully Monster could be is a fish.

"Initially it was published as a worm,"

So the problem is, if it does have cup eyes, then it can't be a vertebrate

[DUMBGRUNT]

Tully Monster, the Illinois state fossil!

Obama, didn't care enough for his home state to sprinkle a few million in research grants, for dear old Tully?

"It has these eyes that are on stalks and it has this pincer at the end of a long proboscis and there's even disagreement about which way is up."

Go Tullimonstrum!!!!

[stocksthatgoup]

Life on earth depends on the answer! /s

[Red Badger]

[4yearlurker]

Let the guys from Monty Python put the thing together.

[Louis Foxwell]

A paddle fish. Native to the lower Mississippi basin and the Yang Tse river in China, nowhere else.

[Opinionated Blowhard]

"This animal doesn't fit easy classification because it's so weird," Lauren Sallan, an assistant professor at the University of Pennsylvania

Gotta love that precise, scientific language.

[Hieronymus]

Is there any evidence on how long it has been in the Mississippi?

[DUMBGRUNT]

The late Mr Tully and his find!

And don’t tell me he noodled that thing?????

[Leep]

I keep telling the press i'm not Tully Monster i am Telly Monster!

[DUMBGRUNT]

Settled science!!!

Get with the program!

[C19fan]

Surprised Sci-Fi Channel has not done a Tully Monster movie. That is one weird looking animal.

[Red Badger]

Yep, seen ‘em!.............

[DUMBGRUNT]

There are some similarities!

http://freepressnewspapers.com/main.asp?SectionID=3&SubSectionID=137&ArticleID=14153

But the real Tully Monsters are only found in the Mazon creek area of Illinois.

That guy was hatched in Washington DC, lives in NYC and Boston.

[Red Badger]

And don’t tell me he noodled that thing?????

Well, he probably fried it..................

[pepsi_junkie]

"It has these eyes that are on stalks and it has this pincer at the end of a long proboscis and there's even disagreement about which way is up."

The artists rendering they used looks exactly like a fish and doesn't match this description at all. Perhaps they should have just shown the fossil.

[Louis Foxwell]

Yep. Got one in my tank.

[SunkenCiv]

• Prehistoric peepers give vital clue in solving 300 million year old 'Tully Monster' [04/13/2016]
• Mysterious 300-million-year-old 'Tully monster' may not be the creature scientists thought it [tr] [11/12/2019]
• The Ancient Tully Monster Was So Unusual That Scientists Still Don’t Know How to Classify It [02/17/2023]

[SunkenCiv]

This topic was posted some time ago, just an update or something.