Loch Ness "Water Monster"

As early as 1500 years ago, the story of huge monsters often coming out to devour people and animals in Loch Ness began to spread. In ancient times, some people even claimed to have witnessed this monster. Some people say it has the long nose of an elephant, which is soft and smooth. Some people say it is a round head and a long neck; Some people say that as soon as it appears, bubbles are layered and splashed everywhere; Some people say that it will spit smoke, which makes the lake sometimes foggy ... All kinds of legends are quite inconsistent, and the more they spread, the more magical they become, which sounds daunting.

For more than a hundred years, this monster has appeared and disappeared like a ghost, and people claim to have seen it with their own eyes. According to people who claim to have seen it, its snake-shaped head and long neck are generally more than one meter above the water. People often see monsters with huge backs. Some people say it's two backs, others say it's three backs. Sometimes it will suddenly surface, and the water will fall from its flank like a waterfall, and then quickly dive to the bottom of the lake, causing a bad wave on the lake.

Since ancient times, many scholars have been skeptical about "The Mystery of Loch Ness Monster", or even completely denied it. They believe that there is no monster in Loch Ness, but an illusion caused by light refraction. It is also believed that there are probably some buoyant mud foam stones at the bottom of Loch Ness, which float on the water surface with the waves under certain conditions. When people stand by the lake and look from a distance, they often mistake the grotesque mud foam stone for a monster because of visual errors.

However, many famous scientists all over the world firmly believe that there is a monster in Loch Ness that has not been confirmed so far. They believe that hundreds of millions of years ago, the area around Loch Ness was once a Wang Yang. Later, due to frequent crustal movements, it experienced many land and sea changes and gradually evolved into today's face. Therefore, it is likely that there is an ancient animal that has not been recognized by human beings-a unique marine reptile that still lives in Loch Ness. This is only a hypothesis and speculation, and it needs sufficient physical evidence to prove it, and it needs further exploration and research by scientists in the future. It has been found out. Loch Ness Monster is considered as one of the top ten scientific scams in the world.

[Edit this paragraph] The sensational Loch Ness monster.

The Loch Ness Monster is one of the most mysterious and fascinating mysteries on earth.

The best 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: long neck and flat head, which looks like a giant reptile plesiosaur that died out 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.

[Edit this paragraph] The Loch Ness monster reappears.

According to the Associated Press, a British man filmed a video in Loch Ness last Saturday (May 3, 20071Sunday). Loch Ness Monster observers thought that the mysterious creature in Scotland's most mysterious lake, Loch Ness Monster, appeared in this video.

The man who shot this video is Gordon Hermes, a 55-year-old laboratory technician in Yorkshire, England. He said, "I couldn't believe my eyes when I saw this 45-foot-long black thing swimming quite fast in the water."

After watching this video, Adrian Sine, an observer of Loch Ness Monster and an expert in marine biology, said that he hoped to make an appropriate analysis in the next few months.

He also said: "I am a skeptic. I don't have any personal subjective views on what happened in this lake. This video is really the best video I have ever seen. "

According to Hermes, living things move in a straight line in water at a speed of about 6 miles per hour. He said, "At first I thought it might be a very big eel. The eel itself has a symbol similar to a snake, which seems to explain all the observations about the Loch Ness monster in recent years. " Hein also said: "There are many possible explanations for the phenomenon observed in Loch Ness. It can be some kind of creature, but it may be just a wave on the water, or it may be just something we want to see because of psychological effects. "

Since the Loch Ness Monster was first photographed in 1930s, we have nearly 4,000 witness materials of the so-called Loch Ness Monster. Whether the Loch Ness monster is real or virtual, it will become a symbol of Scotland. Although the Scottish media are skeptical about the story of the Loch Ness monster, Hermes' video is of high quality.

[Edit this paragraph] There is new evidence.

◆ Monster video

It is reported that Pollack, a 45-year-old Englishman, took his wife and three-year-old son for a walk near Loch Ness one day in August 2000 and filmed a video of an unknown animal for three and a half minutes, which provided new evidence for the existence of the Loch Ness monster. Pollack said: "Some people may say that this is a seal or a deer in the water, but I have seen these animals, and the animals in the video are definitely not like them."

Pollack didn't agree to release this video until now because he was always afraid of being ridiculed by the outside world. A marine biology expert in Scotland carefully watched and studied the video content, but could not confirm what kind of animal was shot in the video. The Loch Ness Monster Fan Club awarded Pollack the video "200 1 Loch Ness Monster Best Discovery Award" and awarded him a prize of 500 pounds.

After learning this news, a gambling company immediately announced that it would reduce the odds of finding the Loch Ness monster from 500 to 250 1.

The trace of American dinosaurs is now 100 million years old. The Loch Ness monster is expected to be proved to exist.

For those who like adventure, the story of "Lake Monster" has always been talked about by them. For example, many people visit Loch Ness in Scotland every year. Many paleontologists believe that the "lake monster" is a dinosaur living in water, but scientists have been unable to find evidence that dinosaurs lived in water. 17, an American female college student announced the discovery of evidence of aquatic dinosaurs in Wyoming.

1. The footprints of the lake monster

Deborah mikkelsen, a graduate student at the University of Colorado, discovered the remains of this aquatic dinosaur. She disclosed the discovery of the "Lake Monster" at the annual meeting of the American Geological Society held in Salt Lake City on June 5438+07, 2007. She and other researchers found a very strange footprint in many places in northern Wyoming, USA. This kind of footprint is mixed with the fossils of many other ancient animals, but after careful confirmation, they finally think it is the footprint of an aquatic dinosaur, which lived 6.5438+0.65 million years ago.

Researchers say that in ancient times, Wyoming and a large part of the western United States were Wang Yang, and this newly discovered dinosaur lived along the coast of the inland sea. They are about 1.8 meters high, almost as big as ostriches. They have four limbs, but they walk with only two hind legs. Mikkelsen said: "According to the footprints they left, you can find how they swam to the depths of the sea-first the footprints of the whole foot, then the footprints gradually became smaller, and finally only paw prints were left." She also said that there is some evidence that these "lake monsters" swam from land to the deep sea "forever", and their purpose may be to feed.

At present, mikkelsen and her colleagues are trying to find some other remains of this dinosaur, so as to study it more carefully and name this new "Lake Monster".

2. Milestones to be verified

For scientists who specialize in paleontology, the discovery of mikkelsen and others is sensational. For a long time, people's views on aquatic dinosaurs have remained at the level of imagination, and no one has ever found evidence of the existence of aquatic dinosaurs. Mikkelsen's discovery, once confirmed, will bring milestone significance to dinosaur research and open a new chapter in paleontology research.

But many scientists are cautious about mikkelsen's discovery. The annual meeting of the American Geological Association in Salt Lake City has not commented on this discovery. Jack Holler, a famous American paleontologist and fossil research expert, said: "Although I am not an expert in studying footprints, this news interests me very much." After affirming the findings of mikkelsen and others, Holler also thinks that it needs further study, and it is not easy to draw a conclusion. He said that only the footprints of these dinosaurs "can't tell whether dinosaurs really swam from land to sea."

◆ Underwater photos

1972, a research team headed by Raines, an expert from the American Academy of Applied Sciences, photographed a huge fin foot while exploring Loch Ness. On June 9th, 1975, the underwater camera group of Loch Ness took hundreds of photos, but saw nothing. At 9: 45 that night, an animal approached the underwater camera and quickly disappeared. Only a tiny part of this animal was photographed, and it is not clear what it is. About an hour later, the animal appeared again, probably because the flash was a few minutes fast or a few seconds slow. What I see in the photo is just a large ugly skin with yellow spots, and I can't prove what animal it is. It was not until 4: 32 the next morning that the flash flashed in time and grabbed the valuable lens. This photo shows the outline (body and head) of a living monster: a diamond-shaped body, a slender neck, and a part of the neck is blurred by shadows. Finally, there is a spot, indicating that the monster turned to the camera curiously, with two fins sticking out from the upper end of his body, which looks very similar. It is estimated that this monster is about 6.5 meters long. Soon the monster launched a series of attacks and collisions on the underwater camera, and the underwater camera was overturned. According to this underwater photo, some scholars have proved that there are monsters in Loch Ness.

But other scientists denied the photos, thinking that Lei Ensi and others had misinterpreted them. Some scientists even think that the so-called "underwater photo" is a fake scam.

Lei Ensi and others placed a sonar device in Loch Ness, trying to detect the monster with its monitor. During the sonar survey in 1976, an object about 9. 1 m long was found at the bottom of a deep-water lake. According to sonar expert Klein, this object "has the shape of a corpse and the same protrusion as the neck". What kind of object is this? Is it sediment or monster corpse? It's hard to be sure

Lei Ensi and British scholar Scott gave the Loch Ness monster a scientific name "Nisling Fin Dragon". However, many scholars are skeptical and negative about this assertion, arguing that this assertion lacks sufficient evidence and is unconvincing.

[Edit this paragraph] Counterproof

◆ There is no monster in Loch Ness, and no monster has been detected by satellite sonar.

British scientists have officially declared that the legendary Loch Ness monster does not exist. They searched Loch Ness with sonar and satellite equipment, but found no trace of the monster.

At the beginning of the search, the research team funded by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) was confident that the "monster" depicted in Scottish legend must exist. They guessed that the so-called monster was an ancient marine reptile plesiosaur. After an asteroid hit the earth, they died out with the dinosaurs. About half a month ago, a Scot discovered the vertebrate fossils of plesiosaur on the shore of Loch Ness. This proves that there were plesiosaurs in this area in ancient times.

In order to ensure that every inch of the lake area is spared, the BBC team used 600 independent sonar beams and satellite navigation technology, hoping to find the air exhaled by the "water monster" lungs. These underwater bubbles will distort the sonar signal. However, the scientists found nothing and returned disappointed. Hugh McKay, who participated in the search, reported to the BBC: "This trip has given us some quite detailed materials about Loch Ness, such as its steep surroundings and flat bottom, where there are no traces of the life of large animals."