Tag: tully
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Fossil Friday #304: A Heartwarming Tully Reunion
This is the “Fossil Friday” post #304. Expect this to be a regular feature of the website. We will post fossil pictures you send in to esconi.info@gmail.com. Please include a short description or story. Check the #FossilFriday Bluesky/Twitter hash tag for contributions from around the world! For Valentines Day, we have a nice heartwarming Tullymonster reunion…
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Fossil Friday #245: Tullymonstrum gregarium
This week’s fossil is a Tully Monster, which are always popular fossils. Tullymonster gregarium come in all shapes and sizes. It got both its common and scientific names from Eugene Richardson, Jr., who was the Curator of Fossil Invertebrates at the Field Museum for many years. Legend has it that Francis Tully brought in some…
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Fossil Friday #229: Tullymonstrum gregarium
This is the “Fossil Friday” post #229. Expect this to be a somewhat regular feature of the website. We will post any fossil pictures you send in to esconi.info@gmail.com. Please include a short description or story. Check the #FossilFriday Twitter hash tag for contributions from around the world! A beautifully preserved Tullymonstrum gregarium is our…
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Fossil Friday #131: Tully Monster!
This is “Fossil Friday” post #131. Expect this to be a somewhat regular feature of the website. We will post any fossil pictures you send in to esconi.info@gmail.com. Please include a short description or story. Check the #FossilFriday Twitter hash tag for contributions from around the world! Who doesn’t love a Tully Monster?… especially a…
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Fossil Friday #99: Tully Monster!
This is the “Fossil Friday” post #99. Expect this to be a somewhat regular feature of the website. We will post any fossil pictures you send in to esconi.info@gmail.com. Please include a short description or story. Check the #FossilFriday Twitter hash tag for contributions from around the world! Our first Mazon Monday was about the…
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Throwback Thursday #74: This Week In Illinois History: The Tully Monster (August 31, 1989)
This is Throwback Thursday #74. In these, we look back into the past at ESCONI specifically and Earth Science in general. If you have any contributions, (science, pictures, stories, etc …), please send them to esconi.info@gmail.com. Thanks! This week (actually August 31st) is a birthday of sorts. It was 32 years ago that the Tully…
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ScienceMag: 300-million-year-old ‘Tully Monster’ may not be the creature scientists thought it was
Science Magazine has a story about the Tully Monster. A paper, which appeared in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B, calls into question whether Tullymonstrum is a vertebrate. The new research found melanosomes in extant invertebrate eyes (Octopus and Squid). That was a key part of the previous argument as it was widely believed…
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U-Haul Tully Monster
Just in case you’ve never seen it on their trucks and trailers, U-Haul has the Tully Monster graphic on their website. There’s also a small animation with sound. Click “Learn More“, there’s a bunch of information about our State Fossi. Enjoy!
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PBS Eons: The Tully Monster & Other Problematic Creatures
This episode of PBS Eons is about our very own state fossil… the Tully Monster! It’s about 6 months old and mentions some of the recent research. It even explains some some phylogeny around the whole mystery of where Tullymonstrum belongs in the tree of life.
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The Field Museum’s Response to the Recent Tully Monster Paper
The Field Museum blog has a reply to the recent Tully Monster paper that disagreed with the determination of the Tully Monster as a vertebrate, which appeared in a couple papers published last year in Nature. Last year, two papers in the journal Nature sought to resolve what group of animals Tully Monster fossils belong…
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‘Tully monster’ mystery is far from solved, group argues
Phys.org has a story about our friend the Tullymonster. Recall that last year there was quite a bit of discussion about the classification of the Illinois State Fossil. Two independent groups of scientist published paper last Spring, one claiming that it was a vertebrate and one even claimed it to be a primitive lamprey. Now…
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The “Tully Monster” is a vertebrate!
A new paper, co-authored by Paul Mayer of the Field Museum, in Nature sheds light on an age-old mystery. Tullymonstrum gregarium, commonly known as the Tully Monster, is the official state fossil of Illinois, designated in 1989. It’s a soft bodied animal found in the late Carboniferous Mazon Creek biota (approximately 309-307 million years…
