Was the Loch Ness Monster an underwater animal in the age of dinosaurs?

1. Loch Ness monster appears again. When it comes to the Grand Canyon in the northern highlands of Scotland, people may be a little strange. But when it comes to Loch Ness in the Grand Canyon, it is estimated that everyone is familiar with it. The Loch Ness Monster is one of the most mysterious and fascinating puzzles on earth.

2. On May 3rd1day, a newly released clear video cast a mysterious veil over this mystery.

3. Video screenshots show long and narrow shadows on the water.

Last Saturday, Gordon Holmes, a laboratory technician from Yorkshire, came to Loch Ness with a camera. Suddenly, the unusual sight on the lake caught his attention. He quickly raised his camera and took the following photo.

According to Holm's description, at that time, the shadow on the lake was 15 meters long and moved at a constant speed of about three meters per second. At first, he thought it was just a giant eel. But later, he realized that he might be lucky enough to photograph the Loch Ness monster.

6. Once this picture was published, it immediately attracted the attention of many researchers. Biologists who specialize in the phenomenon of Loch Ness monster believe that this is one of the clearest videos of Loch Ness monster so far, which is of great research value. Moreover, at the beginning of the picture, the lens is pushed from the wooden fence by the lake to the shadow on the lake, so some experts think that there is no possibility of forgery in this continuous picture. (CCTV.com Wen Chao Tian Xia)

Loch Ness is located in the Grand Canyon in the northern Scottish Plateau of England. It is 39 kilometers long and 2.4 kilometers wide. It's small, but it's deep. The average depth is 200 meters and the deepest point is 293 meters. The lake is not frozen all year round, with steep banks and dense forests. At the end of Hubei, there is a river connected with the North Sea.

The earliest record of water monsters can be traced back to 565 AD, when the Irish missionary St. Columbus and his servants were swimming in the lake. The monster suddenly attacked the servant. Thanks to the priest's timely rescue, the servant swam back to the shore and saved his life. In the next ten centuries, there were more than ten thousand pieces of news about the appearance of water monsters. But the children at that time didn't miss it, thinking it was just an ancient legend or nonsense.

It was not until April 1934 that London doctor Wilson passed by Loch Ness and happened to find the water monster swimming in the lake. Wilson quickly took a picture of the monster with his camera. Although the picture is not very clear, it clearly shows the characteristics of the monster: a long neck and a flat head. It doesn't look like any kind of aquatic animal at all, but like a huge reptile-jujube plesiosaur, which became extinct more than 70 million years ago.

Plesiosaur is a huge aquatic reptile, which lived from/kloc-0 to 70 million years ago and was also a distant relative of dinosaurs. It has a slender neck, an oval body and a long tail. It has sharp teeth in its mouth and feeds on fish. It is the overlord of the Mesozoic ocean. If the Loch Ness monster is really a snake, it is undoubtedly an extremely precious prehistoric animal, and this discovery will also occupy an important position in zoology.

So after this photo was published, it quickly caused a worldwide sensation. With the "dinosaur fever" in the 20th century, people began to associate water monsters with plesiosaurs and paid great attention to them. 1960 On April 23rd, British aviation engineer Ding Side filmed more than 50 feet of film in Loch Ness. Although the film is rough, during the screening, a giant creature with a long black neck can obviously swim across Loch Ness. Some scientists who are negative about this changed their views after watching this film. The Royal Air Force and the Air Reconnaissance Intelligence Center analyzed Tinsted's film and concluded that "that thing is probably a creature."

In 1970s, scientists began to search for water monsters on a large scale with the help of advanced instruments and equipment. In August, 1972, Boston, USA, some photos were taken in Loch Ness with some underwater cameras and sonar. One of the photos showed a two-meter-long rhombic flipper attached to a huge organism. At the same time, sonar also found that there were huge objects moving in the lake.

1June, 975, the hospital sent an investigation team to Loch Ness and took more photos. Two of them are particularly interesting: one shows a huge body with a long neck, and it can also show two short flippers of the object. It is estimated from the photo that the creature is 6.5 meters long, and its forehead is 2.7 meters long, which really looks like plesiosaur. Another photo captured the monster's head. After computer magnification, you can see the short tentacles and wide mouth on the monster's head. The conclusion is that "there are indeed large unknown aquatic animals in Loch Ness."

The discovery of 1972 and 1975 was a sensation, which made people feel that it is urgent to solve the mystery of the water monster or capture the live plesiosaur. Since then, Britain and the United States have jointly organized a large-scale investigation team, sent 24 investigation boats in a long snake array, and dragged fishing nets across Loch Ness in an attempt to catch the monster at one fell swoop. But unfortunately, nothing was found except recording some sonar data.

Because chasing water monsters failed, negative views became popular again. A retired electronic engineer wrote in the British magazine New Scientist that the Loch Ness monster is not an animal, but an ancient pine tree. He said that there were many pine trees near Loch Ness more than 10,000 years ago. At the end of the ice age, the lake rose and many pine trees sank to the bottom. Because of the pressure of water, the resin in the trunk was discharged to the surface, but the gas generated from it could not be discharged. So these pine trees sometimes float to the surface, but release some gas on the surface and then sink to the bottom. To people in the distance, it looks like the head, neck and body of a monster. "

But this view cannot convince those who claim to have witnessed the monster with their own eyes. Moreover, in the late 1970s, some people took several photos of water monsters.

So, why can't people catch monsters so far?

This should start with the special geological structure of Nice. It turns out that Loch Ness contains a lot of peat, which makes the lake very turbid, and the bottom can be less than three or four feet. Moreover, the topography of the lake bottom is complex, and there are labyrinthine deep valleys and gullies everywhere. Even giant aquatic animals can easily and quietly escape the detection of electronic instruments. There are many fish in the lake, so monsters don't have to go out for food, and the lake is connected with the sea, so it is easy for monsters to get in and out. Therefore, it is difficult to catch monsters.

But as long as the monster is not really found, the mystery is not solved. So far, no one can draw a conclusion about the existence of water monsters. In this regard, the British writer Chester said: "Many suspects have less criminal evidence than the Loch Ness monster, so they were hanged." This is a humorous and ingenious evaluation of the mystery of ancient and modern water monsters.