The Tully Monster & Other Problematic Creatures

PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station, go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons ↓ More info below ↓ Thank you to Squarespace for supporting PBS. To learn more, head to squarespace.com and use code "eons" There are animals in the fossil record that challenge some of our most basic ideas about what animals are supposed to look like. If there ever was a monster on this planet that was worthy of the name, it might have been the Tully Monster. Produced for PBS Digital Studios. Image credits: Banffia - Royal Ontario Museum, Jean-Bernard Caron: http://www.burgess-shale.rom.on.ca/ Thanks to Julio Lacerda and Studio 252mya for the Tully Monster illustration. You can find more of Julio s work here: https://252mya.com/gallery/julio-lacerda Check out other PBS Digital Studios channels: https://www.youtube.com/pbsinfiniteseries https://www.youtube.com/grossscienceshow Want to follow Eons elsewhere on the internet? Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/eonsshow Twitter - https://twitter.com/eonsshow Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/eonsshow/ References: http://news.yale.edu/2016/03/16/solving-mystery-tully-monster http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v532/n7600/abs/nature16992.html http://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/flash/2016/enigmatic-tully-monster-finds-home-tree-life/ https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/laelaps/tully-monster-still-a-mystery/ https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/02/170220084139.htm http://www.museum.state.il.us/exhibits/symbols/fossil.html http://scienceblogs.com/laelaps/2010/03/12/your-friday-dose-of-weird-two/ https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-02/uop-mm021717.php https://www.anl.gov/photos/tully-monster-secrets-revealed https://www.anl.gov/articles/solving-mystery-tully-monster https://www.fieldmuseum.org/science/blog/monster-mystery-solved