How is it that a Museum can have 1200+ fossils of a particular species in its collection since the 1960's... and not even know what it is? For decades, it was thought the 'Tully monster' --...
========== Hey, we're here with PaulWe're gonna bust some nodules.We are back with Scott in the...invertebrate paleontology collections here at The Field Museum.Hi I'm Scott LidgardI'm a Associate Curator of Fossil invertebrates here.So Scott, you're one of co-author on this paper thatwas published in Nature about a months ago,Right!Saying that...The Tully monster-- our state fossil known and loved by many...is actually a vertebrate.How come it took people so long to figured it out what exactly it is?Well...looking at it, looking at your model,it's a really bizarre looking creature.and...It is..one that had perplexed scientists because it hasdifferent kinds of characteristics that are shared by some other groups of animals,but not by...