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

YouTube ^ | January 14, 2021 | Indoona

[SunkenCiv]

 

Tullimonstrum: A Prehistoric Monster with An Unbelievable Shape | 20:08 
ExtinctOre | 2.83K subscribers | 91,346 views | April 27, 2025

• The Ancient Tully Monster Was So Unusual That Scientists Still Don't Know How to Classify It [02/17/2023]
• Mysterious 300-million-year-old 'Tully monster' may not be the creature scientists thought it [tr] [11/12/2019]
• Tully Monster mystery not a closed case, scientists say [02/21/2017]
• Prehistoric peepers give vital clue in solving 300 million year old 'Tully Monster' [04/13/2016]

[SunkenCiv]

[SunkenCiv]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tullimonstrum#McCoy_et_al._(2020);_Wiemann_et_al._(2022)

[sauropod]

Bkmk

[SunkenCiv]

https://www.u-tokyo.ac.jp/focus/en/press/z0508_00286.html

[ansel12]

I would hate to be seated behind it in a movie theater.

[Red Badger]

Probably became the Squid of today.................

[sphinx]

Closely related to modern graboids.

[Doctor Congo]

My guess is that the jaws on a snout is used for grabbing things below the sand/mud. It probably used those stereoscopic eyes to guide the snout into holes, then the mouth part grabs whatever is in there.

[MurrietaMadman]

I knew a guy named Tully back in Dong Ha in ‘68. Nice guy.

[ZOOKER]

[CatHerd]

I was expecting some huge scary thing. But it’s actually kinda cute, especially the way it wiggles its little eyes.

Thanks for posting this.

[LouAvul]

TULLY? EXTINCT? IT’S MY FAVORITE KEURIG COFFEE! WHAT WILL I DO NOW?!

[ridesthemiles]

GOD DID LOTS OF EXPERIMENTING

[21twelve]

I need to look at this later to see how they figured the eyes were like that. I would think that would be soft tissue and not preserved in the fossil.

It is interesting that if God was just experimenting, why don’t we find a bunch of animals with more (or less) than two eyes. Sort of like cameras on cars. One on the back is really handy. Then later on - hey! We should put one in the front too! Then on the sides when turning. I have no idea how many are on a Tesla - but I can almost see them trying out a whole bunch of cameras and then reducing their number as it got too confusing and too much information. (Well - at least for a human operator, that still just has two eyes to look at all of the cameras.)

[dangus]

huh?

[SunkenCiv]

My pleasure.

[SunkenCiv]

We think alike.

[CatHerd]

Animals with near 360 degree vision (and other cool vision tricks):

https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/amazing-eyes-vision-champions.html

[Red Badger]

That’s scary.....................