astronomer
Albert einstein
We all know that the Earth was born 4.6 billion years ago, and the early Earth was also a purgatory world, and the environment was worse than Venus. However, with the passage of time, in addition to various coincidences, the earth's environment has gradually improved, becoming a beautiful ecological planet 4 billion years ago.
After the formation of a perfect ecosystem, the earth also had all the conditions needed for life to be born, so that 3.8 billion years ago, the first life was born from the earth's primordial ocean. With the birth of the first life, the earth also became a living planet, and in the long years that followed, life has undergone continuous evolution, more and more numbers, more and more types, and more and more advanced, and finally gave birth to intelligent life humans millions of years ago.
After human beings enter the era of science and technology, the history of life on the earth has also begun to explore and study, many people may say, we do not have time light, can not return to the ancient earth, how to know what happened to the life world of the earth? What creatures have ever existed?
Yes, we can't travel back in time and space, and if we want to study and explore the history of life on Earth, there are only two magic weapons we can rely on, one is geological survey research, and the other is biological fossils. Although we can't see the past years with our own eyes, the traces left by the years will be preserved in the rocks.
Through geological survey, we can find some traces of earth's history in different geological layers, and paleontological fossils are an important weapon for us to study and explore the history of life on earth. Paleontological fossils refer to the remains and activity remains of organisms formed in the prehistoric geological history of human beings and endowed in the strata, including fossils such as plants, invertebrates, and vertebrates and fossils of their remains. Paleontological fossils are a testimony to the history of the earth and a scientific basis for studying the origin and evolution of organisms.
We all know that the geology of the Earth has not remained stable for billions of years, but on average, every tens of millions of years or so, a large geological activity will occur. Every major geological activity leads to the extinction of a large number of organisms, and some of these organisms will become fossils due to geological activity and sealed in rocks.
The earth is a natural history museum, and as long as the fossilized rock stays underground, it can be preserved for tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of years. Every geological plate change will cause many animal fossils to be buried in the deep sea or deep under the surface.
Scientists can uncover part of Earth's history by searching for these paleontological fossils, for example, scientists have found a large number of dinosaur fossils around the world, unveiling the glorious dinosaur era 65 million years ago. I also know that before the birth of human beings, there were also dinosaurs on the earth, which dominated the earth for 160 million years.
Through the fossil trilobite, scientists know that the most representative ancient creature of the Cambrian era 500-600 million years ago is the trilobite. It is an arthropod, through which we also understand that this period was the era when insects dominated the earth, and it is initially speculated that the earliest organisms that evolved from the ocean to the land may be insect arthropods.
By exploring fossils of paleontology, scientists not only need to understand which organisms have appeared in the history of life on Earth, but more importantly, they have to look for the ancient ancestors of millions of modern species of various creatures. After Darwin proposed the theory of evolution, let us understand that life is constantly advancing through evolution, and modern creatures must have an ancient biological ancestor.
Understanding the evolutionary relationship between paleontology and modern organisms is more conducive to our understanding of the evolution of life, which is of great help to us explore the mysteries of life. Scientists have found a large number of fossils of paleontology around the world, most of which we can explore the evolutionary relationship between their origin and modern life.
But there is a paleontological fossil that has plagued scientists for more than 60 years, until now it has not been cracked, what is going on? More than 60 years ago, a collector accidentally obtained a strange animal fossil, because the collector's name is Tully, so the fossil is also called "Monster Tully".
Through this paleontological fossil, we can see the ancient biological specimens that are sealed in it, which looks like a fish and is very ugly in appearance. It's a fish we've never seen before, and it looks like a combination of a snake and a squid, with a slender upper body and a very large lower body. If it is a terrestrial creature, there are naturally many creatures with this body structure, but scientists of this shape of marine life have really never seen it.
What exactly is it? How many years have it been? Since it is impossible to find a sample to match it, the monster Tully scientists can only make various speculations, and it is generally believed that it was born around the Time of the Carboniferous Period, at least 300 million years ago.
The Carboniferous period was an important orogenic period in the history of crustal development, and it was a period when crustal movement was very active. This period is the representative era of the great prosperity of the plant world, and the era of the development of terrestrial biospace. The climate was warm, humid, swampy, and massive forests appeared on the continent.
Flycatchers are the most important taxa of the Carboniferous marine invertebrates, and this era is also called the Age of Giant Insects by scientists, which is full of individual giant insects, such as giant spiders, giant centipedes, giant dragonflies, etc. In the context of this particular period, some scientists believe that the Tully monster may be the ancestor of the snail, but it does not have a shell.
There is also the view that the Tully monster may be a more special bug, after all, the Carboniferous Period can be called the era of bugs. As for what it really is, scientists have no way to give a definitive answer. At present, we have only found this strange fossil on Earth, and no more similar paleontological fossils have been found.
To figure out the true identity of Tully's monsters, we need to find more fossils of paleontology like them. It has now been entered into the museum's electronic database, looking forward to the future reveal of its true identity. For the Tully monster, a paleontology that cannot find its true identity, it is relatively rare for scientists to explore the fossils of paleontology.
Therefore, there are also some people who dare to speculate, will the Tully monster be an alien creature? That is, alien creatures from outside the earth, forgotten on earth? Of course, this speculation is not supported by more people, who still think that it is an ancient creature of the earth, but it may be very rare in number, and the fossils left behind are also small.
It can be seen that in the billions of years of long life history on the earth, although there have been at least tens of millions of ancient creatures, we can call names and understand very few. Most of the paleontology we do not know, even the ancestors of millions of modern creatures, can find their source is very few.
Friends, what kind of ancient creature do you think the Tully monster will be? Welcome to leave a message below to discuss and express your own opinions and opinions.