[CatHerd]

Yikes! Reminds me a bit of those things in that movie Tremors. Sometimes extinction is not such a bad thing, eh?

[algore]

[adorno]

I would classify it as an ancestor of ET.

It’s not from this planet.

[Leaning Right]

When these scientists are done investigating the Tully monster, I wish they’d try to identify the thing I saw in the New England woods last fall. I have nightmares about it to this day.

[lee martell]

For such an ugly, clumsy and repelling creature, it has a comforting name; The Tully Monster. You almost expect it to be
wearing a grey plaid, cardigan sweater and smoking a pipe.
No word on how it reproduced. Must have been asexual,similar to a snail. Who would date a Tully Monster? Not even an Eel.

[lgjhn23]

Looks like something that might be found in the pedoPIG’s diaper.... /s

[I-ambush]

I didn’t see this noted in the article, but the size of the creature was 3” to 15.”

[PeterPrinciple]

Folks,

Classification is a very artificial process. But it can be useful to understand the world.

Classification of nematodes involved the cutting the rear end off and pressing flat on a slide and looking at the patterns.

I often thought sitting humans on a copy machine and classifying by patterns would be a good idea.

Much better classification than skin color or head measurements.

[BitWielder1]

I'm not saying it's alien, but...

[jerod]

[Robert DeLong]

Tully Monster

[marktwain]

Based on thousands of specimens.

It was fairly plentiful at the time.

About 6 inches to a foot long.

[V_TWIN]

[telescope115]

That is the goofiest looking thing.

[Paal Gulli]

In the 1960s a Mr. F.W. Holiday wrote a book titled, "The Great Orm of Loch Ness" theorizing that Nessie was a Tullimonstrum orm. His evidence was mainly that in some of the instances when Nessie has been reported being seen on dry land, the grass where it had laid turned brown and died. This he claimed was a result of the slime a slug leaves wherever it crawls, and Nessie's slime was obviously a natural herbicide.

Mr. Holiday builds quite a convincing case but conveniently leaves out until near the end of the book that the largest fossil of a Tullimonstrum orm ever found was all of 18 inches long.

It bears mention that Mr Holiday was a notable eccentric and believed the reason high-quality photographs of the Loch Ness Monster are so rare is that Nessie is telepathic (and apparently also a connoisseur of photographic equipment) and chooses to remain hidden whenever it senses it might be exposed.

[Nervous Tick]

>> it was also like a slug, and kind of resembled a leech as well

So, Democrats have been around a hundred million years is what you’re saying?

[dfwgator]

[Donkey Odious]

Sea Monkeys!!

[Buttons12]

They could’ve called it a cattywampus. Or even a tallywacker. Tully? I’d hate to meet up with the Tully they named that freak after.

[Brooklyn Attitude]

“The Ancient Tully Monster Was So Unusual That Scientists Still Don’t Know How to Classify It”

Additional info
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/what-tully-monster-scientists-finally-think-they-know-180958422/