Review
On Earth, biological species and populations are very large, but over time, many animals have become history, sinking into the bottomless ground, and they have become fossils waiting for further excavation by our humans.
Generally speaking, the biological information recorded in the fossils is very accurate, and we can restore the domineering image of dinosaurs through dinosaur fossils, and even infer its unknown past, and can also prove its existence through the fossils of trilobites, and spy on the earth's original climate change.
But there is such a fossil, not only can not solve the doubts of scientists, but also adds a burden to scientists, because the creatures in this fossil are difficult to identify, so what are the creatures in this fossil? Why have scientists not come up with an accurate result after more than 60 years of research?
Tully Monster
In 1958, American amateur fossil collector Francis Tully discovered a particularly strange biological fossil, the creature in this fossil, special shape, not good-looking, even Tully people who have been dealing with fossils for many years, do not know what the animals in this fossil are.
So, Tali found a local biological researcher, and the researchers did not know what it was, and the news of this fossil spread all over the place, which immediately caused heated discussions in the local area, some people said it was a bug, and some people said it was a shellless snail, in short, the animal in this fossil did not look like a vertebrate creature.
The American professional scientific journal Science Advances has published data related to this fossil and claimed that the "Tully monster" may not be a living thing, but a mixture of several organisms, because it does not have a unique biomolecule and has lost some biological signals.
After a long period of analysis, scientists compared the composition of 113 animal fossils, and found nothing, and in the end, they could only come to a very vague conclusion that the "Tully monster" is an unusual vertebrate.
This is very strange, the American people say it is "invertebrates", American scientists say it is "vertebrates", is there any other animal on the earth, can be between vertebrates and invertebrates? Just because scientists did not characterize the "Tully monster", many folk scholars in the United States began to "move".
For a long time, the topic of "Tully Monster" was endless, basically becoming the after-dinner talk of all American families, and then later, American researchers could not sit still, in order to show their erudition, they directly announced the identity of the "Tully Monster": the ancestor of the modern lamprey.
But is this statement of American researchers really reliable?
- Lamprey?
Hearing the name lamprey, many people will think of eels, yes, lamprey is indeed a kind of eel, but unlike the eels we generally see, its outer gill holes are located on both sides, there are 7 on each side, so it is called lamprey, and as an order of the round mouth class, only the lamprey family is this family, so from another point of view, this thing can be called half a "rare species".
In addition, this "tower monster" fossil is 307 million years old, so many people regard the creatures inside as the ancestors of modern lampreys.
In 2017, several research groups from the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Oxford conducted a more in-depth investigation of this fossil and found that in this fossil, the white line resembling the animal's spine crossed the position of the eye, but in the lamprey fossil in the same formation, this white line similar to the "spine" could not be found at all.
As a result, the statement that "the Tully monster is the ancestor of the lamprey" was immediately rejected, and the news about the fossils of the "Tully monster" once again became a puzzle.
Scott Leadgaard, curator of paleontology at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, once observed the fossils of the Tully monster and believed that the fossils contained them were a very unusual animal.
Derek Briggs, a geologist and geophysicist at Yale University and curator of paleontology, has also expressed his own opinion, which is basically the same as the popular view, that the Tully monster is a strange aquatic mollusk.
And we know that mollusks are generally invertebrates, that is, researchers still can't make up their minds on the question of whether there is a "spine".
- Amazing species
In 1966, with the support of various scientific equipment at that time, scientists depicted the general image of the Tully monster according to the fossils of the "Tully Monster", and the animal image depicted broke everyone's cognition.
According to the instrument drawings, this "Tully monster" has a hesitant body, snail eyes, and a strange long mouth, if such an animal really exists, it must be a magical species that we have not yet discovered.
In the fossils of the Tully monster, there is also a thin white long line, this line is used by scholars as a spine, according to the length of this spine, the Tuli monster is about 0.3 meters long, and the body is narrow and long, with eyes similar to the hammerhead shark on the top of the head, which can basically be identified as a fish.
Therefore, whether it is a scientifically derived restoration map or direct evidence of fossils, the true face of the "Tali monster" still needs to be constantly explored, and it is for this reason that many people suspect that the Tali monster is alien life.
Extraterrestrial life
In today's rapid development of human science and technology, people have seen the term "extraterrestrial creatures", after all, all countries in the world have basically recognized the possibility of alien life, otherwise it will not take time and experience to investigate and explore the planets in outer space.
According to NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA), there is a high probability of life outside the Earth, including Venus, Mars and Jupiter, so the possibility of the "Tully monster" coming from aliens does exist.
But this is only a guess, because in the matter of proving the existence of aliens, we humans have never been able to produce relevant evidence, in other words, we cannot prove the existence of aliens.
Review
As a member of the earth's environment, we humans are doing our best to understand every strange situation that happens on the earth, and the emergence of the "Tully monster" is not only a challenge to our human biology, but also a way for us to restore the historical truth and better understand the history of the earth.
Since the first Tully Monster fossils appeared in 1958, researchers have also found thousands of samples of Tully Monsters in Illinois, which have been digitally scanned and stored in the electronic database of the Field Museum of Natural History.
For 62 years, we humans have never solved the truth of the identity of the "Tali monster", but with the development of science and technology, our human understanding of the earth is gradually deepening, in the future, we will definitely uncover various mysteries on the earth, and the true identity of the "Tali monster" will also surface.