Tully Monster News Today

How much confidence should we really place in dubious fossil evidence when it is boldly claimed to prove Darwinian evolution as a fact?

Illinois' state animals include a fish, a furry, a feathered one, a couple of slimy ones, a slow mover, another one is nightmare fuel and there's a monster too.

A new study by five scientists at the University of Tokyo investigated 153 specimens of the Tully and 75 other fossils from Mazon Creek.

Illinois' state animals include a fish, a furry, a feathered one, a couple of slimy ones, a slow mover, another one is nightmare fuel and there's a monster too.

Illinois' state animals include a fish, a furry, a feathered one, a couple of slimy ones, a slow mover, another one is nightmare fuel and there's a monster too.

New technology has revealed one of the biggest secrets of the “Tully monster” which confounded palaeontologists since the 1950s.

The Tully Monster has been an enigma for half a century. Now it's been reconstructed on the basis of analysis of 1200 specimens.

Researchers close in on a taxonomic home for one of paleontology’s weirdest wonders, the Tully Monster

Scientists have been debating the morphology of the Tully monster since the discovery of its fossils in the 1950s. Now, a team at the University of Tokyo say it definitely did not have a backbone.

With the new Jurassic Park movie raking in millions of dollars at the box office, dinosaurs are once again at the front of public consciousness. But millions of years ago, when there was very little public consciousness, were there dinosaurs running around what is now Illinois?