So, animals like Tully Monster are weird, definitely.

所以，像 Tully Monster 这样的动物肯定很奇怪。

The Tully Monster was a member of team vertebrate.

Tully Monster 是脊椎动物团队的成员。

The Tully Monster wasn't, like, monstrously large for its time.

Tully Monster 在当时并不大。

For example, Tully monsters have a pale band running through the middle of their bodies.

例如，塔利怪物的身体中间有一条苍白的带子。

Furthermore, some Tully monsters showed two bands, a dark one and a light one.

此外，一些塔利怪物出现了两条光带，一条是深色的，一条是浅色的。

Lemme put it this way: If the cantina in Star Wars had an aquarium, a Tully monster would fit right in.

让我这样说：如果《星球大战》中的小酒馆有一个水族馆，塔利怪兽就可以放进去。

To paleontologists, if anything is creepy about the Tully monster, is that it's missing the one thing that biologists value very highly.

对于古生物学家来说， 如果说塔利怪兽有什么令人毛骨悚然的地方，那就是它缺少生物学家非常看重的一件事。

But the Tully Monster doesn't have a permanent place in the evolutionary scheme of things that we call the Tree of Life.

但是塔利怪兽在我们称为生命之树的事物的进化计划中并没有永久的位置。

All of these traits are shared by Tully monsters and one other known animal: lampreys – long fish with toothy, jawless mouths.

所有这些特征都为塔利怪兽和另一种已知动物所共有：七鳃鳗——一种长着长着牙齿、没有下巴的嘴巴的鱼。

If there ever was a monster on this planet that was ready of the name, it might have been this: the Tully Monster.

如果这个星球上曾经有一个怪物的名字，它可能就是这个：塔利怪物。

For example, a group of paleontologists thinks it’s figured out the evolutionary story behind one of the weirdest-looking animals that ever lived: the Tully Monster.

例如，一群古生物学家认为它已经弄清了有史以来长相最怪异的动物之一：塔利怪兽背后的进化故事。

She recently described the Tully monster as being " just about at the top of the scale of weirdness." But how weird are we talking exactly?

她最近将塔利怪物描述为“几乎处于怪异规模的顶端”。但是我们到底在说多奇怪呢？

After analyzing more than 1,200 fossils of the Tully Monster they determined that the creature was a vertebrate, probably an ancestor of Jawless fish like lampreys.

在分析了 1,200 多块塔利怪兽的化石后， 他们确定该生物是一种脊椎动物，可能是七鳃鳗等无颌鱼的祖先。

But, just like our old friend the Tully Monster, there are many fossils that challenge our ability to form even the most basic idea of how a living thing looked, or lived, or functioned.

但是， 就像我们的老朋友塔利怪物一样，有许多化石挑战了我们形成关于生物的外观、生活方式或功能的最基本概念的能力。

But McCoy and her colleagues examined more than twelve hundred fossilized Tully monsters that’ve been found over the past 60 years, and they announced last week in the journal Nature, that they had solved the mystery.

但麦考伊和她的同事们检查了过去 60 年来发现的 1200 多具塔利怪兽化石，他们上周在《自然》杂志上宣布他们已经解开了这个谜团。