‘Long stringy stingy thingy’: Bizarre glowing tentacle-like creature made up of THOUSANDS of tiny organisms is spotted off the coast of Australia Creature is believed to be a siphonophore which looks like a single animal It is thought the outer ring has a circumference of 150ft (47metres) It has stinging tentacles and is made of … Read more
A worm-like creature that lived more than half a billion years ago has been discovered which is the ancestor for almost all living creatures. The creature, called Ikaria wariootia, lived around 555 million years ago and was found in Australia. It is the earliest known bilaterian, a creature with both a front and back, two symmetrical sides … Read more
Mysterious 300-million-year-old ‘Tully monster’ may not be the creature scientists thought it was – as new research reveals it wasn’t a vertebrate after all Tullimonstrum, also known as the Tully monster, lived 300 million years ago It has baffled scientists since fossils were first discovered 60 years ago A 2016 discovery of stiffened cartilage classified Tully … Read more
A prehistoric sea creature that swam in the oceans and walked on land 380 million years ago had ‘fingers’, making it a ‘missing link’ in the evolution of the human hand. The fish ‘fingers’ on ‘Elpistostege watsoni’ enabled our primitive sea-dwelling ‘relative’ to make the transition from water to land, experts claim. An international team … Read more
A prehistoric sea creature that swam in the oceans and walked on land 380 million years ago had fingers, making it a ‘missing link’ in the evolution of the human hand. The fish ‘fingers’ on ‘Elpistostege watsoni’ enabled our primitive sea-dwelling ‘relative’ to make the transition from water to land, experts claim. An international team … Read more