What The Hell Is The TULLY MONSTER?

Some weird animals have come and gone throughout Earth's existence, but not many have caused as much confusion as the infamous Tully Monster....

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Chapters:
0:00 Intro
0:43 Discovery
1:19 Description
2:14 Environment
2:57 What ACTUALLY was it?
4:31 The Dancing Worms of Turkana
5:21 Q&A

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[fireblazenotbulgaria]

This looks like something I would make in Spore

[latheofheaven]

Tully Monster is quite evidently an ancient ancestor of the aeroplanids. Whilst lacking wings or even propeller engines, it did already have the portholes for the passengers.

[ХъюгаНаумова]

Someone accidentally imported the Spore model into Earth's history

[laurachapple]

Aliens landed for a picnic and their kid spilled his sea monkeys. Took millions of years to get rid of 'em.

[admiralcat]

Opabinia: Died 505mya
Tullymonstrum: Born 311mya

Welcome back Opabinia

[blandp]

Thanks. I'm hoping it was a cordate just because I like thinking that it was some weird basal lineage to our group that survived to earn a living looking like that. The arthropods can't get all the cool weird things.

[sharendonnelly]

I think the Tully Monster was a chordate. Probably from an archaic species that had its beginning in the Cambrian and managed to evolve into its unique shape 200 million years later. Evolution can be weird, but has its niches. Already subscribed and notification bell rung. Love your videos and like every time!

[PeteOfDarkness]

This is something you see in game Spore when you hit random in creature creator.

[walter]

Truly bizarre things, whatever they were. Would you consider covering conodonts by chance? They deserve more recognition as they are nearly as strange.

[dekyras]

A period for really diverse animal body forms - great video - thanks

[valinorean]

Can you make one about Skeemella? Even Wikipedia disagrees with itself on its classification: "Newer reconstructions of vetulicolians often resemble tunicate larvae or simple cephalochordates, with the front section as a pharynx used for breathing and ramjet style filter-feeding and the rear section as muscle blocks. However, Skeemella is an unlikely candidate for this interpretation; the rear section segments bear clear affinities to arthropods.[2] Either Skeemella is not a vetulicolian, researchers do not yet have enough data to correctly interpret Skeemella, or vetulicolians are not deuterosomes."

[diegodankquixote-wry]

I think it's a jawless fish, like a lamprey.

[robcanisto]

Look at this snack right here and his boulder shoulders under that sweatshirt good lord ❤❤❤

[maxstroberger]

I describe it as a freaky terrifying thing

[thomasgumersell]

Enjoyed your video on this unusual creature. A very oddly made up interesting creature. 💪👃✨

[zodrickzheioh]

honestly the preservation of the fossils largely seems strong, yet the lack of any sort of boney/Cartilaginous deposits really make it seem like they're likely invertebrates. Being able to see the Notochord without any clear vertebral elements seems to suggest this. I would have to say that I fall into the Invertebrate camp, as weird as it seems it just wouldn't make much sense for us to see so much of the other material and not find any evidence of bones. That being said, that doesn't answer many of the other questions about the creature, but I would find it hard to argue that it must be vertebrate just off the inclusion of a Notochord, given that there are modern examples of creatures which are invertebrates with a notochord.

[Dan-xfmy]

Truly a wild looking creature !! Enjoy ur videos n learn new creatures. 😊❤

[unleashthekraken]

The Tully is the larval from of Sy snootles. 😉

[thoughtfuldevil]

Somebody once wrote a boo suggesting that the Loch Ness Monster might be a species of gigantic Tullimonstrum.

[AncientVerseAnimations]

I would classify the Tully Monster in a similar way to how the Platypus was classified. Basically, the Platypus is one of the 5 known species of Monotreme around today, which are mammals that lay eggs. The Platypus, while primarily mammalian, also has some Avian and Reptilian traceable DNA and traits. The Tully Monster could be similarly a Combination Species of sorts.