Tully Monster - weird, extinct, but there are some living animals like it today [5:35]

YouTube ^ | January 14, 2021 | Indoona

[SunkenCiv]

Tully Monster (Tullimonstrum) - is probably the weirdest animal that ever lived- the true story of the Illinois state fossil, how it was found and what it is.

The Tully Monster was found not too far from Chicago, Illinois, in 1955, by fossil hunter Francis Tully. Its soft body was remarkably well preserved in the shale of Mazon Creek, near the coal pits of Braidwood, Illinois. But what is this weird creature? It lived 300 million years ago in the Carboniferous period, the age of ferns and coal, but did it leave any clues of what animals living today it resembles or was it a line of its own that became extinct? 

Tully Monster - weird, extinct, but there are some living animals like it today. | 5:35 
Indoona | 4.54K subscribers | 5,699 views | January 14, 2021

[Southern Magnolia]

If we’re talking about the critter’s eyes and how it sees, are we talking about...tully vision?

[xp38]

Sort of reminds me of a lobster. I wonder if it was good eating?

[21twelve]

Thanks for the link - I’ll look at it in more detail later.

Most of those critters still have only two eyes. Although the “four eyed” fish is pretty cool, with two eyes but four pupils! Two in the water and two out!

And the sea urchin is pretty amazing too. While not eyes, each tentacle has a photo receptor, and it uses some tentacles to shade them to help focus in a certain direction!

And of course the compound eyes (still just two “eyes”) of many insects.

[CatHerd]

You’re most welcome. I like the chameleon eyes. Amazing, a bit spooky, but also somehow cute.

[CatHerd]

Hmm. I just realized they didn’t include spiders. Spiders have eight eyes.

[marktwain]

There are some animals with rudimentary third eyes, and there are lots of animals with multiple eyes.

Spiders mostly have eight eyes.

[mass55th]

Thanks for the ping. I’d never heard of this creature before.

[ridesthemiles]

OWLS & LIONS CANNOT MOVE THEIR EYES.

THEY MUST MOVE THE ENTIRE HEAD....

[Nateman]

[SunkenCiv]

My pleasure.

I think he carried out an emergency landing on a river or something...

[Sirius Lee]

This is my favorite Burgess Shale critter, Hallucigenia. "Hey, little guy. Go for a walk. Does Geni wanna go for a walk? Whoooshagoodboy!"

[\/\/ayne]

[marktwain]

It is very likely eyes were developed during the period defined by the Cambrian shales.

[Waverunner]

Don’t all moms develop an extra set of eyes in the back of their heads! Happy Mothers Day

[Salamander]

Is it nicknamed Jethro?

[Salamander]

Super thrilled to know horseflies have such great vision.

😑

[gleeaikin]

i went to the link to try to find out if it had bones or cartelage, or was soft bodied. Apparently the scientists have not made up their minds even though several of these things have been discovered for scientific study.

[SunkenCiv]

I’m glad there’s a decent body of fossils to study and that it is getting studied. Science is a method, not a fixed body of ex cathedra statements.

[SunkenCiv]

:^) When the last one died millions of years ago, its last words were, “I’ve ceased to see where I’m going to.”

[MIA_eccl1212]

not experimenting...

terraforming... for us.