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The "Tully Monster" is not a vertebrate.
Topic Started: Feb 21 2017, 02:47 PM (820 Views)
Yi Qi
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The mystery lives on...
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Acinonyx Jubatus
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I AM THE UNSHRINKWRAPPER!

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*screams internally*


So what the heck IS it?! Honestly. Just when you think a mystery's been solved, poof! It's not solved anymore.
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Paleodude
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What even is this little bugger. Seems to change what it is every year.
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Imperator Furiosa
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Chaos Theory

The Field Museum tells me different information on this dude every time I come in for work since we have the largest collection of them in the nation. What even is it, guests keep asking me and now I can't answer them!
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the dark phoenix
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King of wonderlandia

It self identified as a Vertebrate, now it doesn't.

I know what it is. In this day and age it decided to be Hip and be Species Fluid.
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stargatedalek
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I'm not slow! That's just my moe!

While this poses some new questions as to it's genetic origins, it only further supports the anatomy of the most recent reconstructions. The presence of secondary vertebrate traits, even as it seems it may not have been a vertebrate, still gives us a relatively clear picture of what it would have looked like in life.
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Ulquiorra
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Maybe its an evolutionary experiment that was a life form intermediate between being an invertebrate and being a vertebrate, and never progressed any further.
Edited by Ulquiorra, Feb 25 2017, 10:24 AM.
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magpiealamode
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No good hero is a one-trick phony.

My guess: sister taxon to vertebrates, possibly within Chordata. Now we know where Trump came from
Edited by magpiealamode, Feb 22 2017, 05:41 PM.
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Stan The Man
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You guys are missing the obvious; it must be an extraterrestrial.
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Paleop
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Paleopterix

It is an entity in and of it's self. It does not cladogram, for it simply just is.

....perhaps we have it upside down like with Hallucigenia....

Either way, fascinating news.
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