Scientists Solve Tully Monster Mystery

It is one of the strangest looking fossils ever discovered.  So strange that scientists dubbed it the Tully Monster, after Francis Tully, the amateur fossil hunter who discovered it in 1958 in the central United States.     Now a group of researchers from Yale University may have finally answered some questions about this evolutionary oddity, officially known as Tullimonstrum gregarium.   Their results are published in today’s issue of the journal Nature and offer the...

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