Tully Monster Magnets
Description: Tullimonstrum, AKA the Tully Monster may be the greatest mystery in the history of paleontology! At various times, this enigmatic animal, which lived about 300 million years ago, has been reconstructed as a fish, an arthropod, a mollusk, a worm, and more... and its true identity is still a subject for debate among paleontologists!
Description: The Tully monster was a soft-bodied, aquatic creature that lived about 300 million years ago and is Illinois' official state fossil. It was about a foot long with a torpedo-shaped body, a long snout with a claw-like mouth, and two eyes on stalks. While some research in 2016 suggested it was a type of jawless fish, its classification remains a mystery, with other studies arguing for an invertebrate or a completely different lineage I miss them a lot.
