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Thursday, January 24, 2013

Tully Monster

This is a clay interpretation of the fossil organism known as the Tully monster.  The Tully monster is the state fossil of Illinois, the only place it has been found.  The fossil is not well enough preserved to clearly place the animal in any extant phylum.










An artist's depiction of the Tully monster:


Despite the way the name sounds, Tully monster was not a character on Sesame Street.