UPDATED: It is. . . an artist's rendering of a 300 million year old swampy-marsh dwelling vertebrate (or proto-fish) called Tullimonstrum Gregarium, or a "Tully Monster" (after the man who found the first fossil in the 1950s). It lived prior to the age of dinosaurs, and thus far (over one thousand fossils -- up to a foot long -- have been unearthed), found only in Illinois -- some 50 miles southwest of present day Chicago. Here's Nat Geo, on it all. Now you know -- and happy St. Padraich's -- one and all! [Oh. I dyed him green, in honor of the great Saint. No one really knows what color he was. Begorrah!] Onward! [End, updated portion.]
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Care to make a guess? [If you already know -- you already know, right?]
I'll post the answer, tomorrow -- and no fair Googling. That's cheating.
2 comments:
some sort of flagellate- haha
Good guess, Brian -- but it is a precursor to the lamprey, and as a vertebrate -- a distant relative of present day fish -- and thus... humans...
Crazy, right? The truth will always be far stranger...
Namaste!
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