What Was The Tully Monster? 

Ben G Thomas swag

very cash money

Ben G Thomas hey I was wondering if u would narrate a book I’m writing after I finished

I really hope the new paper is called 'The Tully Monster is TOO a Vertebrate!'

It's still giving me a squid vibe

Fuck you for stealing my joke, I was just about to say that, and now I can’t because you’re clearly funnier than me.

That makes spore evolution acurtate lol .

I was just about to comment this lmao

it looks like my first cellular creation

@@alexbonilla2041 mood

Classic studies, but surpassed by the seminal paper: 'the author of the study with the incorrect hypothesis says what'.

According to a recent study, anyone who doesn't like this comment is a big poopy head.

"The only invertebrates here are the guys from the previous paper"

allan mallee I love the concept of petty shit talking becoming a norm in scientific journals/articles 😂

blechmann’s seminal paper ‘nuh uh’ refutes that bold claim.

Irritator: welcome to the team!

@@ghaniKSW2 the literal name of this dinosaur irritates paleontologists.

Imo i honestly think this is one of the first squids to have lived on earth, the jaw looks alot like what a squids beak, and the long probuscus it has is what probably turned into their tentacles, just a theory

@@XSL17X I don’t know if they’re related because there isn’t that much evidence of Tully Monster having mollusk ancestry. However I would agree that it has similar morphology to Squid which may be a case of convergent evolution. Something interesting to note though is that Squid eyes and fins are parallel but Tully Monster’s is perpendicular. Something else to consider is that with its eyes on stalks perpendicular to its fins they may result in excess drag while swimming so it may indicate that it can’t swim very quickly.

SURELY 😂

I believe the true answer to this mystery wrapped in an enigma with a little conundrum sauce and a dash of cilantro wrapped in a tortilla may be found with a full translation of the 1956 recording of _"Rubber Biscuit,"_ by _"The Chips."_ _(No need to thank me, I'm here to help.)_

@@paradisepipeco thank you for your help, everything makes sense now.

@@mrcakeday1439 Glad to be of service. Over my long life and world travels, I have gained much wisdom, and in true bodhisattva tradition, I have chosen to share with any and all young whippersnappers willing to stop snappering those furshlugginer whippers long enough to listen. For example, one must never give bunk drugs to drunk bugs. Also, never _EVER_ play leapfrog with a unicorn. Unfortunately, I must now take my leave, for I must needs go see a Pleiadian about a plesiosaur. So as the sun pulls away from the shore and our ship sinks somewhere slowly in the west, I bid you a fond _adieu._ *_"If we had some ham, we could have some ham and eggs, if we had some eggs."_* ~~ Groucho Marx *_"Before you criticize someone, walk a mile in their shoes. That way when you criticize them, you are a mile away and you have their shoes."_* ~~ Jack Handey *_"Politicians are like diapers, they need to be changed often, and for the same reason."_* ~~ Mark Twain *_"The reason dogs like to visit other dogs on the dairy farm is that dogs love to sniff another dog's dairy air"'_* ~~ Fido McRover *_"I am not a dog lover. A dog lover to me means a dog that is in love with another dog."_* ~~ James Thurber *_"Dogs can't dance, silly. They have two left feet."_* ~~ Arthur _"Astaire way to heaven"_ Murray *_"You can't roller skate in a buffalo herd."_* ~~ Roger Miller *_"I'm a lumberjack and I'm okay"_* ~~ M. Python *_"To a rat, a bat is an angel."_* ~~ Juan "Tiny" Iota *_"I've never had a problem with drugs. I've had problems with police."_* ~~ Keith Richards *_"I feel good, like I knew that I would."_* ~~ James Brown *_"When the wise man points at the moon, the fool stares at his finger."_* ~~ Mokele Mbèmbé _Top 40 from the Back 40 (playlist)_ ru-vid.com/group/PLOhxuTxNTwnF5AVaTbLaK2rHPXHAM_ORU .

@@paradisepipeco love

@@missewe Namaste. I find your sheepishness quite refreshing in this land of Tully monsters, unicorns and trolls. And I appreciate the new sub, as my old one can barely submerge anymore without leaking. However that is my own fault for not repairing the screen door sooner, but I digress right out the egress and down that long lonesome two lane highway, with my coat collar turned toward the wind, all the way till the break of day. After all, the blues ain't nothin' but a good soul feelin' bad; and as for me, I might get better, but I'll never get well. Hope to hear from you on the other channel. ONE LOVE. Namaste

macsporan it is how we grow as intellectoids. without argumentation, we would be as Tullimonstrum, unaware of our own identitieus.

jeff

@@jake-wx8xy yess

Is this true and if so can you send me a link, I want to read it so I can learn something during quarantine.

I second what @@thememeguy2195 said.

"the tully monster is a vertebrate" Tully monster: no u

Uh-oh.

Ah yes. The old "I'm rubber, and you're glue" gambit. *_"If we had some ham, we could have some ham and eggs, if we had some eggs."_* ~~ Groucho Marx

From this debate, i conclude: It's Ducky from the Spore Cell Stage.

Are you saying it is actually related with the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal?

Indeed

And I live by that...

Agreed

Alpharad?

tully monster; the way home

Yeah, someone who has never seen a squid seeing a squid for the first time would be so confused LMAO

nope its lamprey if you look at a lamprey and an image of the tully monster you will see why

@@infinitedowns6630 lamprey are jawless, this has jaws. Doubt it.

My first time seeing a squid I thought it was cool but nothing too crazy. My first time seeing this thing and it’s just like what the fuck

I have to agree honestly. I'm you I'm not exactly a rocket surgeon or anything

“Is not times infinity”

@@lategamer6684 is so times infinity plus one.

Sir Zorg woah slow down there

just make up a new classification ffs

A Lego Man ? Is there anything other than either? Doesn’t everything fit into vertebrate and invertebrate

Love the way you describe it

Wanted to make a Lovecraft reference and you beat me to it. This thing could translate extremely well the themes of the unknown and uncertain of cosmic horror

great use of eldritch. rarely get to see it used

its Nyarlathotep isnt it :|

Can't tell which side is which? How very like an octopus. I currently have to favor an early branch off the same group as the octopi, squid, nautiloids, etc. You can almost reproduce the body shape from a cuttle fish if you remove all but one tentacle.

You ever found anything particularly cool?

@@bluedragonfly5145 Oh yes, I have found everything from full fern leaves to whole jelly fish! Maybe one day I’ll find a Tully!

@@KillJoyXx1 wow a jelly fish that’s a stellar find. I hope to go fossil hunting someday can’t do it where I live though.

Yo, shoutout from Morris!

@@thegentlemanfish7504 Morris represent!

We are

Yeah, I hope they are still rolling down in the deep

If you have not already you should look up “living fossils”. I think you’ll quite enjoy the topic if the question of how it remained unchanged peaks your interest. Just to clarify though you won’t get an answer but rather you’ll find animals that walked/swam with the dinos that are still around relatively unchanged to this day.

@@jedimasterobi-wankenobi7926 this makes Miss Ewe happie

@@tuxido4913 whatchu know bout rollin down in the deep

Ur Gay

Nah, Lovecraftian

I think it's a cephlopod.

@@KK-bk3dm happy pride moth

*tears up * you're so right, youre so so right

Melvin Shine underrated

Its named after Francis Tully who discovered it

R/wooosh

Ronald McKechnie stop

Mother Nature was baked when she came up with this

I was thinking the same thing. If it is some distant cephalopod ancestor, then all those live reconstruction images are showing it swimming backwards, and if it did swim with the pointy fin in the front like squids do, the elbow on its proboscis would enable its mouth to face forward.

@@thecianinator Great point, I hadn't considered that.

"oh cool a silly guy"

You must have some strange looking friends

@@Corusame non-euclidean especially

@@Corusame hahahaha!!!

So it's not just me who wants to pet this fella? He looks like a super cool fish pet, and as You said, he looks friendly.

@@ZizixxSamurai I'm glad you agree, I still think it's so dorky and fun looking!

Yeah, I was thinking the tail fins would look better on the sides like a cuttlefish

I thought the same thing.

Hm I think it's the other way around. Tully is from many million years after the dawn of squids. It looks Cambrian but it's not.

what if the jaw is actually normally tucked in. only when it dies, it loses that muscle tension control and the mouth comes spitting out. then in natural world...when it is alive it would be beneficial to plop above a spot on the coral reef and stretch this mouth out to "reach" for food.???

@@arielperez797 interesting thought.

Yea that's basically what happened there. Nature was trying out everything and checked out what skicked.

IKR. Thats why I am never too skeptic about cryptids.

Magmacube tr same

Magmacube tr also same

It’s shit like this that keeps cryptozoologists’ hope alive.

MastJake-The-Tur same

It actually kinda was.

Glowing animals start to seem normal

it is an alien world, the fact that we understand it and know what to expect now doesn't change the fact that every living organism is just odd and weird, we just don't see it that way because we know what to expect when going outside for a walk.

well, we see a bunch of modern animals everyday, these, never.

Well, Bugs used to rule the world before they became tiny, tbh

Woah look its a person that knows what they are saying

Given its well-developed eyes an ambush predator niche seems plausible.

Plausible....very...VERY.. Plausible, good job

nice!

Cool

Hs & Ys??!

@@TheAuntieBa ...Yes. We used to throw them away before we found out they were actually fossils of soft bodied creatures.

James Ruddy Lol, wish you’d kept ‘em all! Kids - no idea of eons and eons...😉!

don't

what if

PLEASE dont start that possibility

"The Tully monster is not a vertebrate or invertebrate. It is a fungus."

@@PinkBunnyCorporation WHAT HAVE YOU DONE

Akinaro Nice pfp btw

Why u steal comments

I think its a primitive chordate (vertebrates are chordates but more evolved)

I þought that too

@@aryyancarman705 gneiss.

Closer in the sense that we are figuring out what it isn't. That is the scientific way.

well, it has a squidlike crown fin and cephalopod eyes, pretty sure it's just a *really* fucked-up squid thing

*_"If we had some ham, we could have some ham and eggs, if we had some eggs."_* ~~ Groucho Marx

That seems like a good theory. Soft tissue really doesn't fossilize well and tullimonstrum could have easily had some sort of "foot" like clams to attach them to the seabed

Yeah, it looks like the proboscis would retract right? It's not articulated like a fucking arm lmfao. It probably worked somewhat like a chameleon tongue? Please tell me we aren't the only ones to think this

It looks like the mouth could be retracted and shoot out in order to quickly grab prey, like shark jaws.

thats what i was thinking, didnt wanna say because im not experienced in things like this

@@GullOuue I get the impression of it being related somewhat to a cuttlefish

Mm... If the proboscis was to retrac there should be some anatomical feature at the eyes' level resembling a chamber or something like that. Or at least a few of the specimens should have be found with the proboscis retracted.

“Probably”

Definitely

Chordate?

I would go with Alexagrigorieff. There is no way it is a vertibrate as the vertibral column is absent. Unless cartilage doesn't fossilise as well as bones do?As far as I know, the Notochord rarely fossilises, but of course can be found in the BUrgess Shales which record the earliest member of the CHordate phylum. The Lamphrey quoted is not a Vertibrate. But along with the lancelets , hagfish and Vertibrates we have the phylum of Choradata.

He was vertebralinvertebral

That documentary was my shit as a kid

I loved that discovery kids show

It looks like something made in spore

Nah, it looks like a starwars motorcycle

It does. I grew up on the series spin off of the documentary

Well, that's apparently the best guess of science right now too.

@@SpitfiretheCat16 lol

I didn't know that the platypus feels that the tully monster is a creation of the cosmic joker.

Do not tell me to _"Like the Platypus"._ You're not the boss of me.

@@paradisepipeco are you the platypus?

@@whoeverofhowevermany No, but that was a very good guess, young Jedi. I am the egg man. We are the egg men. I am the walrus. _Also, be on the lookout for kitty kat imposters._ There are diabolical bunnies afoot in furry kitty kat kostumes, infiltrating our local bingo clubs, NRA chapters and trade unions. Fortunately, Aunt Teefa discovered a way to identify these pussy impersonators. The felonious faux felines can be identified by their _Fake Mews._

*@Happy Camper* I think you misspelled "Comics".

You could make it with the default parts you have in the game.

I wish I was this handsome

Nick3xtreme Gaming if u look like a tully monster hmu 👅

@@dickshneeze4566 lmfao Hell Yeah

Shame on all of you. We are all as *_Dog_* made us. _(And what can you expect, if you were made by a dog? I mean, look at what a dog makes in the back yard, for Dog's sake.)_

*_"The reason dogs like to visit other dogs on the dairy farm is that dogs love to sniff another dog's dairy air"'_* ~~ W.E. Nerdogg

Wooooah! Imagine that though!

"Great Orm Of Loch Ness" by F W Holiday.

Like Grandpa used to say, _"The early squid catches the worm."_ No . . . wait. Never mind.

Haha was gonna leave a comment about it being the Loch Ness Monster too and you beat me to it. So I’ll compliment your Moomin pfp instead :)

@@DiabIoLoco " Da fuk, hair only in their head, pelvic zone and armpits?"

That also had feathers.....

with reflective eyes

decomposing basking owl

that happens over and over in the same place ? ??? ? lol

Also turns out that it inspired godzilla

@Goku Vegeta I know right? I often think of that. How many entire classifications of creatures we will never even find out about.

Mat Broomfield could creatures have been larger than the dinosaurs and have just not been preserved?

@@carrier2823 It's conceivable giving that in some cases, all we know about an entire classification are a few small fragments of bones that there are entire dinosaurs we havn't discovered, but I don't think it's very likely that there are classifications of animals APART from dinosaurs. They would have had to exist in ways that left absolutely no traces, not even descendants. But never say never.

The largest single life form on earth, is the humongous fungus in Oregon, it's a honey mushroom mycelium mat and basically the floor of an entire forest. I doubt it will leave any noticeable remains in the fossil record, if or when it goes. Also to consider is if whole fossils are rare and the bigger ones more so, what would be the odds of the biggest fossil ever also being the biggest creature to ever live?

@@amewarashi5770 I take your points Ame. What a loss to us all never to even know taht these creatures existed. Of course, it's worth noting that some of the oldest traces of life on the entire planet were types of seafloor slime... :-)

Shoving my mouth into holes has got me into more trouble than you can imagine

@@Corusame God I literally died and went to heaven when I read it😂😂🤣

Plot twist: God actually said that to the Tully Monster as they were talking about humans

"I am extinct, leaving me the victor."

It's like the reverse of the "That's a funny trick to play on god" joke from spore

If it is extinct in your way of comprehending the universe it doesn't mean anything really. Maybe we as humans are experiencing the universe backwards, so in God's view Tully Monster is the future of the universe and we are the past.

Abstract Russian there is no “god” buddy

I mean it was around before squidward so if anything squidward really came a long way proud of the homie for elevating

OMG that is THE best comeback to the Tully Monster. I cant stop laughing 😂 . Look Im a paleobotanist - so not my specialty, but honestly the debate on this topic is EPIC. but has everything to do with the taphonomic processes. Great vid.

@@alexdayde4413 shut up

@@tubeguy4066 about what?

@@alexdayde4413 Nothin, have a good day.

Could we maybe scan the cells of the petrified thing and try to write out as much of its DNA and then fill the rest of it out? I mean...

Nature ah, finds ha weigh

@@Nemesis0513 No. DNA can't survive that long.

@@FrikInCasualMode No, you just gotta fill in the holes in the code!

Well, at least I have an answer to THAT question.

Well that's history for you. Some creatures back in the day just looked hellah weird like new creatures will in a couple million years, if we would be still alive to see that anyways.

​@@daquan6213 Yeah, the Opabinia looks like a vacuum cleaner and Wiwaxia is a rock covered in pride flag extract, so anything goes before the Permian.

Indeed, the locals know when somebody is from out of town by the way they pronounce it. Did you go there too?

@@ambulocetusnatans Yeah, without going into to much detail, I've spent a decent amount of time in the area! It's very lovely, and some of the local libraries have tully monster displays last I'd seen!

Some species cannot be tracked because they never evolved and did not servive when extinct entirely it's hard to say if the fossil record ended or is still undiscovered!🤔

@@adamwelch4336 I'm so confused by your comment 🤔

@@lionvonadern ah gotcha, thank you for taking the time to reword that for me

@@the_hanged_clown I was discussing commonality between species vetabra and non vertebrae animals commen genetic ancestors

@@adamwelch4336 um, sure you were

I think slug as well.

Paleozoic problematic proboscis is my new favorite alliteration

That tullymonster is so ugly, your band should only play Schoenberg! ;)

No kidding! Compared to what we see in the fossil record, the aliens of cinematic science fiction are lame variations on humans, dogs, and lizards.

@@christosvoskresye they're the overexxgrated interpretations of Convergent Evolution; these prehistoric species are the real deal

@@christosvoskresye It looks like how the word nart-nat sounds

yes, but what's up with the semicolons?

Henka they get u marks in your GCSEs

Hmm I don't know about that... Sounds like something a duck would say. *squints eye*

@@hiunaut2833 AFLAC!

They’re reptiles so their ancestors are dinosaurs

@@waterbottle8692 They're avians, birdbrain. But yes, still dinosaurs.

Avians are reptiles

And then 3 minuts of just silence ͡° ͜ ͡°