* Astronomy

Tully Monster Still a Mystery

This time last year, two teams of paleontologists announced that they had finally solved one of the most inscrutable mysteries in the history of life on Earth. The Tully Monster - a flat, bug-eyed, nozzle-nosed animal truly worthy of the title Monster - went from a 300 million year old Rorsarch test to a vertebrate, a strange lamprey rather than a pincer-faced invertebrate. Fossil fans sent up a cheer as the unusual critter was welcomed into the fold. But now a different group of researchers has once again raised uncertainty about what, exactly, the Tully Monster is.
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