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

The best record of the water monster can be traced back to 565 AD. The Irish missionary St. Columb and his servant were swimming in the lake. The water monster suddenly attacked the servant. Thanks to the priest's timely rescue, the servant was saved. The man swam back to shore and saved his life. Since then, in more than ten centuries, there have been more than 10,000 reports of the appearance of water monsters. But people at that time did not miss this, thinking it was just an ancient legend or nonsense.

Until April 1934, London doctor Wilson was passing through Loch Ness and happened to find a water monster swimming in the lake. Wilson quickly took a photo of the water monster with his camera. Although the photo was not very clear, it still clearly showed the characteristics of the water monster: a long neck and a small head, which did not look like any kind of aquatic animal at all. , and very similar to the giant reptile Jujube plesiosaur that became extinct more than 70 million years ago.

Plesiosaur is a huge aquatic reptile that lived from more than 100 million to more than 70 million years ago. It is also a distant relative of dinosaurs. It has a slender neck, oval body and long tail, with sharp teeth in its mouth. It feeds on fish and is the overlord of the Mesozoic sea. If the Loch Ness Monster is really a snake, it is undoubtedly an extremely precious surviving prehistoric animal, and this discovery will also occupy an important position in zoology.

Therefore, after this photo was published, it quickly caused a worldwide sensation. With the "dinosaur craze" of the 20th century, people began to connect the water monster and the plesiosaur that might still be alive. This is given great attention. On April 23, 1960, British aeronautical engineer Dingsted took a film of more than fifty feet in Loch Ness. Although the film was rough, it was still obvious when it was shown that a giant black creature with a long neck was swimming across Loch Ness. . Some scientists who originally had a negative attitude towards this changed their views after watching the film. The Royal Air Force's Joint Air Reconnaissance Intelligence Center analyzed Dinsted's video and concluded that "that thing is probably a living thing."

In the 1970s, scientists began to use advanced instruments and equipment to search for water monsters on a large scale. In August 1972, Boston, USA, used underwater cameras and sonar to take some photos in Loch Ness. One of them showed a two-meter-long diamond-shaped flipper attached to a huge creature. physically. At the same time, sonar instruments also detected large objects moving in the lake.

In June 1975, the hospital sent an expedition team to Loch Ness again and took more photos. Two of them are of particular interest: one shows a large body with a long neck, and may also show the object's two stubby flippers. It is estimated from the photos that the creature is 6.5 meters long, of which the forehead is 2.7 meters long. It does look like a plesiosaur. Another photo captured the head of the water monster. After being enlarged by a computer, you can see the short tentacles and wide mouth of the water monster. The official conclusion is that "there is indeed a large unknown aquatic animal in Loch Ness."

The discoveries in 1972 and 1975 caused a sensation, making people feel that they could unravel the mystery of the water monster or capture a live snake. The neck dragon is imminent. After that, Britain and the United States jointly organized a large-scale expedition team and sent 24 research ships to form a long snake formation and sail across Loch Ness like a net in an attempt to capture the monster in one fell swoop. But unfortunately, apart from recording some more sonar data, nothing was found.

Due to the failure of hunting the water monster, negative views became popular again. A retired electronic engineer wrote an article in the British "New Scientist" magazine: The Loch Ness monster is not an animal, but an ancient pine tree. He said that more than 10,000 years ago, there were many pine trees growing near Loch Ness. At the end of the ice age, "the lake water rose and many pine trees sank to the bottom of the lake. Due to the pressure of the water, the resin in the trunks was discharged to the surface, and the resulting gas could not be discharged. So these pine trees sometimes floated to the surface, but on the water After releasing some gas, it will sink to the bottom of the water. To people from a distance, it looks like the head, neck and body of the water monster."

But this view does not satisfy those who claim to have witnessed the water monster with their own eyes. People are convinced. And in the late 1970s, someone took photos of the water monster several times.

So, why can’t people catch water monsters yet?

This starts with Nice’s special geological structure. It turns out that the water in Loch Ness contains a lot of peat, which makes the lake very turbid, and you can see the bottom less than three or four feet in the water. Moreover, the terrain at the bottom of the lake is complex, with maze-like deep valleys and ravines everywhere. Even huge aquatic animals can easily hide quietly and avoid detection by electronic instruments. There are many fish in the lake, so the water monster does not have to go out to look for food. The lake is connected to the sea, so the water monster has easy access. Therefore, it is not easy to catch the water monster.

But as long as the water monster is not actually found, the mystery remains unsolved. To this day, people are still arguing about the existence of water monsters, and no one can draw a conclusion. In this regard, the British writer Zister said: "Many suspects have less evidence of their crimes than the evidence of the existence of the Loch Ness Monster, so they are hanged." This is a humorous and clever evaluation of the mystery of the Loch Ness Monster in ancient and modern times. .

The Loch Ness Monster appears again (latest)

According to the Associated Press, a British man took a video in Loch Ness last Saturday (May 31, 2007). Loch Ness Monster observers believe the video shows a mysterious creature from Scotland's most mysterious lake - the Loch Ness Monster.

The man who took this video is named Gordon Hermes, a 55-year-old laboratory technician in Yorkshire, England. He said: "When I saw this black thing, 45 feet long, swimming very fast in the water, I couldn't believe my eyes."

Loch Ness Monster Observer, After watching the video, marine life expert Adrian Heine said he hoped to conduct a proper analysis within the next few months.

He also said: "I am a skeptic and I have no personal subjective opinion about what happened in this lake. This video is indeed the best I have ever seen. "

Hermes said that the speed of creatures moving in a straight line in the water reached about 6 miles per hour. He said: "I initially thought it might be a very large eel. The eel itself has snake-like features, and it seems to explain all the observations about the Loch Ness monster in recent years." Hine also said: " There are many possible explanations for what is observed in Loch Ness. It could be some kind of creature, but it could just be waves in the water, or it could simply be our psychology that causes it to behave the way we want it to. "

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

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◆The Loch Ness monster is a hundred-year-old eel?

Scotland's Loch Ness Monster is one of the most famous legends in the world. Every year it attracts a large number of tourists from all over the world to visit, hoping to see the true face of the water monster. It is said that there were records of the Loch Ness Monster 1,500 years ago. In the following ten centuries, there were more than 10,000 such messages.

The British have been arguing for decades about whether there is a monster in Loch Ness. However, recent results have revealed that the Loch Ness monster turns out to be several sterile "eunuch eels".

Freeman, a scientist who specializes in such research, said that judging from the existing photos of the monster, the Loch Ness Monster is actually several seven or eight-meter-long old eels. He believes that several eels in Loch Ness may have lived about 100 years old. Freeman said that eels in Loch Ness usually swim into the Atlantic Ocean when they are 10 years old and swim to Florida, where they lay eggs and die of old age. However, some of the eels have become sterile "eunuch eels". Since these eels don't lay eggs, some of them may not venture out to sea, and some may just stay in Loch Ness. The eels that stayed in Loch Ness had no natural predators, so they grew bigger and bigger, and eventually became what many people now call "water monsters."

◆ Could the "Loch Ness Monster" be a direct descendant of the ancient plesiosaur?

According to multiple British media reports, a 67-year-old British man recently discovered a 150-million-year-old plesiosaur fossil on the shores of Loch Ness. The discovery of the new dinosaur fossil confirmed that as early as the Jura Dinosaurs lived and multiplied on the shores of Loch Ness in the 19th century, and the so-called "Loch Ness Monster" that has appeared frequently in the past century and has troubled the entire scientific community is likely to be the descendant of the ancient plesiosaur!

According to reports, the newly discovered fossil is four vertebrae of a dinosaur. It is gray-white in color, and the spinal tendons and blood vessels that have turned into limestone can be clearly seen on it. This dinosaur fossil is a 67-year-old British man. It was discovered by old man Gerald McSorry in a shallow water in Loch Ness.

Scientists from the National Museum of Scotland confirmed on the 15th that this is indeed a vertebral fossil of a Jurassic era plesiosaur, and it is the first ancient dinosaur fossil discovered on the shores of Loch Ness in the UK - it It has been confirmed that the 35-foot-long ancient marine killer, the plesiosaur, indeed once lived in the Loch Ness area.

The scam is complete

Not long ago, many media around the world quoted a report from the British "Daily Telegraph" on July 16, saying that Scotland's "Nice" has been promoted for thousands of years. The "Lake Ness Monster" has now been confirmed - an old British man accidentally discovered a 150-million-year-old plesiosaur fossil in Loch Ness. The legendary Loch Ness Monster is likely to be a descendant of the ancient plesiosaur! But after analysis, scientists concluded that although the entire story was true and the fossils were real, it was just another hoax.

According to reports, the real plesiosaur fossil was discovered by 67-year-old retired scrap collector Gerald McSorley. He was swimming in Loch Ness when he tripped over something. For a moment. He dived down and picked up the stumbling block, but he didn't expect it to be four fossilized ancient animal vertebrae.

Scientists from the Scottish Ethnographic Museum confirmed that those fossils are indeed the vertebrae fossils of ancient plesiosaurs.

Plesiosaurs lived in the Jurassic Period from 200 million to 65 million years ago. They were 11 meters long from head to tail and once dominated the oceans. Their necks are long and snake-like, hence the name plesiosaurs.

For this fossil, fans of the Loch Ness monster found a treasure and quickly deduced a story: 65 million years ago, a certain plesiosaur took refuge in Loch Ness and escaped the catastrophe and survived. , the current Loch Ness Monster is the direct descendant of the ancient plesiosaur!

However, all this is just imagination. Loch Ness could not have contained a plesiosaur. Lyall Anderson, a paleontologist at the Ethnographic Museum of Scotland, said: "That fossil is definitely a plesiosaur fossil. It is an excellent specimen. I also believe what Mr. McSorley said - it was found in Loch Ness, but There is evidence that the fossil came from elsewhere and was later moved to Loch Ness."

He said: "The fossil is set in grey-white, Jurassic-era limestone, but it was not in Loch Ness. The rocks in the area are crystalline igneous rocks that are much older than this. "The closest place to have rocks that match this kind of limestone is the Ashe area, 50 kilometers northeast of Loch Ness. "In this fossil, the limestone has a large number of holes eroded by marine life. It seems that this specimen remained on the beach until very recent times." Other scientists agree with Anderson's view.

Richard Forrest, a plesiosaur expert at the New Wark Museum in Leicester, UK, said: "The appearance of the fossil and the holes in it suggest it spent a considerable amount of time in seawater. "But there is fresh water in Loch Ness." Gary Campbell, director of the Loch Ness Monster Fans Club, also pointed out: "I think it is almost certain that someone put this fossil into Loch Ness on purpose. "At the entrance, the fossil happened to be found close to where tourists were staying, probably deliberately so that it would be easy to find." He also pointed out that there have been numerous scams in the area in the past.

Forrest believes that someone may have accidentally left the fossils in the lake. He said: "A few years ago, a plesiosaur limb bone was also found near the place where the fossil was found. It was later found out that a local tour guide used the limb bone for a demonstration and placed it on a rock. But he forgot to take it back."

Forrest said that if the Loch Ness monster exists, it cannot be a plesiosaur. One of the reasons is temperature: Plesiosaurs are cold-blooded animals and could neither generate enough body heat to keep out the cold nor find enough food in the cold waters of Loch Ness. Moreover, plesiosaurs needed to breathe air and surfaced several times a day. If Nessie was really a plesiosaur, people would have had a chance to see it clearly.

Many paleontologists also pointed out that plesiosaurs became extinct in ancient times, and Loch Ness is less than 12,000 years old and was caused by ice erosion during the last ice age.

Forrest summed up his personal opinion by saying: "These reports about the Loch Ness Monster are very good news for the Scottish tourism industry, but there is no real evidence to support them."

◆The Loch Ness Monster is actually an elephant?

According to the British "Sunday Mail" report, Scotland's Loch Ness Monster is one of the most famous legends in the world. It attracts a large number of tourists from all over the world to travel to Loch Ness every year, hoping to see the true face of the water monster. However, a British paleontologist recently made a shocking announcement after several years of research: the Loch Ness Monster is a fiction and is purely a publicity stunt concocted by a circus owner in the 1930s.

British paleontologist report

According to reports, British paleontologist and dinosaur research expert Dr. Neil Clark recently announced to the scientific community that based on his research, he believes that Scotland The legend of the Loch Ness Monster is purely the work of a circus owner in the 1930s. The photos of the Loch Ness Monster that people took were just circus elephants swimming in the water. Because elephants swim underwater, unidentified witnesses saw only the trunk or back of the elephant emerging from the water. Therefore, rumors spread around the world about the existence of monsters in Loch Ness.

Dr. Clark said that the legend of the Loch Ness Monster originated in the 1930s, when Bertram Mills, the owner of a British circus, saw an elephant in his circus swimming in Loch Ness. After swimming and bathing, he immediately realized that the newly rumored "Loch Ness Monster" was nothing more than an elephant in his circus.

The circus owner "played the trick"

However, Mills did not reveal the secret of the "Loch Ness Monster" to the world, but came up with a clever way to promote the circus. , in 1933, he issued a reward, announcing that anyone who caught a Loch Ness Monster for his circus would receive a reward of 20,000 pounds. The Loch Ness Monster and Mills' Circus gained instant worldwide fame.

Clark told reporters: "What we know about the Loch Ness Monster comes from eyewitness accounts, blurry photos, remote videos and some proven hoaxes. In the eyes of most eyewitnesses, The 'monster' is actually just a floating log or wave, but there are still some sightings that cannot be explained, because some people did see creatures with long necks and round backs appearing in the lake, especially in 1933. My research shows that these 'unidentified creatures' are actually circus elephants.

At that time, many circuses often came to Inverness to perform, and they would stop for a while on the shores of Loch Ness to give their animals a rest. ”

He teased the whole world

According to Clark, the circus owner would let the elephant swim in the lake, but due to its weight, when the elephant swam, almost its entire body None of them were under the water, only the trunk and back were exposed above the water.

Bertram Mills died in 1938. After his death, the legend of the Loch Ness monster became even more popular. The lake has also become one of the tourist hotspots for tourists from all over the world. Clark said: "I think Niels must have died laughing because people all over the world were fooled by him.

Shane, head of the British "Loch Ness 2000" project, said: "This is a very interesting theory. If an elephant swims in Loch Ness, it will indeed look like what people take in photos." The Loch Ness Monster.

◆The theory that the Loch Ness Monster is an "elephant" has been questioned

The elephant theory does not explain the "lake monster" seen by subsequent witnesses

Scotland The story of the "Loch Ness Monster" has always been talked about by people. Every year, a large number of tourists go to Loch Ness in Scotland to explore the traces of the "Lake Ness Monster". Some people think the lake monster is an overweight eel, while others think it is a sturgeon that has lost its way. However, according to a report in The Times on the 6th, British paleontologist Dr. Neil Clark claimed that he had solved the mystery of the "Loch Ness Monster" after several years of research and investigation. He said that there was no water monster in the lake at all, it was just an elephant resting in it! As soon as this statement came out, the whole UK was shocked. So how did the famous paleontologist and director of the Hertline Museum at the University of Glasgow discover this secret?

In fact, in addition to Mars’ circus, there were several other circuses that often performed in the Nice area in the early 1930s. These circuses also had elephants and also used elephants. Loch Ness is used as a "natural bathtub" for elephants. However, local residents or people who happen to pass by Loch Ness are not aware of this behavior of the circus. Therefore, it is not surprising that they accidentally see elephants in the lake and regard them as "lake monsters".

"Loch Ness Monster" fans apparently do not take this research that attempts to debunk this strange phenomenon seriously, because in the last year alone, some people claimed to have seen the lake monster four times. I firmly believe that lake monsters do exist. Even Clark himself admitted that his elephant theory did not explain the so-called sightings later, because the circus near Loch Ness basically disappeared, but people still claimed to have seen the "lake monster" from time to time.

A reporter asked Clark if he believed in the existence of the "Loch Ness Monster". Clark said: "I do believe that there are living creatures in Loch Ness." But whether this living creature is a fish or something else unknown , Clark did not describe further.

The "Loch Ness Monster" is the longest-standing natural mystery in the world.

The rumors of the "Loch Ness Monster" first appeared in the 6th century. Later, more and more people claimed to have seen the lake monster, and the rumors became more and more "vivid". The "Loch Ness Monster" has become the world's longest-standing natural mystery. In the past 100 years, witnesses have taken a large number of photos of so-called "lake monsters". Every once in a while, someone will come forward and claim, "I saw a lake monster."

At the same time, lake monster investigators from different research institutions and for different purposes staged another drama surrounding the "Loch Ness Monster". They have come up with various explanations for the "lake monster". These explanations all sound more or less reasonable, but none of them can provide convincing evidence to prove that the so-called lake monster does not exist at all.

The latest explanation of the "lake monster" comes from Dr. Neil Clark, a famous British paleontologist and director of the Hertline Museum at the University of Glasgow. His public assertion on March 5 was equally shocking: Scotland’s “Loch Ness Monster” is actually an elephant. After this "conclusion" was reported by well-known British media such as The Times and BBC, it immediately became the most lively scientific debate in the UK.

What makes Dr. Clark’s Elephant Theory so appealing is that Clark is a famous paleontologist who is less likely to joke about his reputation than the stragglers of so-called investigators. His conclusion is more credible than that. But more importantly, the paleontologist has been investigating this mysterious legend for two full years. He has reviewed a large amount of information related to the "lake monster", interviewed a large number of witnesses, and coupled with his many years of scientific research experience, Only then did he disclose his research results very cautiously.

For what purpose does an ordinary circus owner offer a reward to capture the Loch Ness Monster?

Dr. Clark’s research report was published in this month’s issue of the Open University’s Geological Society magazine. In this paper, Clark analyzed that the "Loch Ness Monster" may be a "masterpiece" deliberately created by a circus owner for publicity purposes. The so-called lake monster is nothing more than a circus elephant playing in the water!

Clark was surprised to find during the investigation that in 1933, the year when the rumors of the Loch Ness Monster were the most popular, Bertram Mills, the owner of a circus in London, England, paid the equivalent of 20,000 pounds today. A bounty was offered to capture the Loch Ness Monster, which immediately attracted widespread attention around the world.

These historical materials also aroused Clark's vigilance: What was the purpose of an ordinary circus owner offering a reward to capture the Loch Ness Monster? Clark dug out Mills' family background from the archives and conducted a long period of comparative analysis. Clark believes that the originator of the lake monster is most likely Mills himself.

In that year, Mills' circus basically toured the area around Loch Ness. Records show that there were several elephant actors in the circus. After the performance, their favorite leisure time was The way is to jump into Loch Ness and take a nice bath. Clark captures this important message, connecting the elephant and the "lake monster", two things that are not related to each other.

Elephants bathing in rivers and lakes is the most common thing for scientific researchers, and no one will treat it as a research topic. However, when Clark put the elephant and the "lake monster" together, he realized that it was necessary to carefully analyze how the elephant bathed. Clark used the latest computer imaging technology to closely recreate the elephant bathing scene on the screen. He discovered an interesting phenomenon: the elephant's body is bulky, and when bathing, only its arched head, back and long trunk are often exposed on the water.

The reason why the circus owner offered a reward to capture the Loch Ness Monster was because he kept this "monster" in his circus.

Clark compared screenshots of elephants bathing from different angles with the most credible photos of "lake monsters" he had collected. He was pleasantly surprised to find that the two types of photos were so similar! The so-called "lake monster" is just the elephant's trunk sticking out of the water! It is obviously impossible for a serious scientific researcher like Clark to draw conclusions based on just a few photos. This is just the starting point of his research. After continued in-depth research and investigation and analysis, Clark became more and more convinced that the "lake monster" was the elephant in Mills Circus. Some photos are of wood floating on the lake or water waves.

Dr. Clark is a heavyweight in the British paleontological community. He became famous in 2004 when he discovered 165 million-year-old dinosaur footprint fossils on the Isle of Skye. "The Loch Ness Monster is an elephant" is another "biological weapon" thrown by Clark. According to him, the legend about the Loch Ness Monster is "very much a product of the 20th century." Dr. Clark said: "Most eyewitnesses saw the so-called lake monster after 1933, when the A82 highway had just been completed west of Loch Ness. Through the analysis of eyewitness statements, photos and video data, we discovered that Nessie The rumors are purely fabricated. Most of the witnesses saw only wood or water waves floating on the water, but for some unexplained lake monsters, they were actually elephants with their necks or backs sticking out of the water, especially from the water. Started in 1933."

Dr. Clark said that according to his research, these so-called lake monsters are all circus elephants. The circus often sets up camp on the shores of Loch Ness, and as a result, the elephants sometimes run into the lake to bathe. Once the elephant bathes in the lake, people can only see the trunk and back of the elephant. He said: "The result gave the impression that it was a monster with a long neck and two backs. It is more likely that there was more than one elephant in the lake. No wonder Bertram Mills offered a reward of 20,000 pounds for its capture. The Loch Ness Monster, it turns out that he kept this kind of 'monster' in his circus."

In June 1975, the hospital sent an expedition team to Loch Ness and took more photos. Two of them are of particular interest: one shows a large body with a long neck, and may also show the object's two stubby flippers. It is estimated from the photos that the creature is 6.5 meters long, of which the forehead is 2.7 meters long. It does look like a plesiosaur. Another photo captured the head of the water monster. After being enlarged by a computer, you can see the short tentacles and wide mouth of the water monster. The official conclusion is that "there is indeed a large unknown aquatic animal in Loch Ness."

The discoveries in 1972 and 1975 caused a sensation, making people feel that they could unravel the mystery of the water monster or capture a live snake. The neck dragon is imminent. After that, Britain and the United States jointly organized a large-scale expedition team and sent 24 research ships to form a long snake formation and sail across Loch Ness like a net in an attempt to capture the monster in one fell swoop. But unfortunately, apart from recording some more sonar data, nothing was found.

Due to the failure of hunting the water monster, negative views became popular again. A retired electronic engineer wrote an article in the British "New Scientist" magazine: The Loch Ness monster is not an animal, but an ancient pine tree. He said that more than 10,000 years ago, there were many pine trees growing near Loch Ness. At the end of the ice age, "the lake water rose and many pine trees sank to the bottom of the lake. Due to the pressure of the water, the resin in the trunks was discharged to the surface, and the resulting gas could not be discharged. So these pine trees sometimes floated to the surface, but on the water After releasing some gas, it will sink to the bottom of the water. To people from a distance, it looks like the head, neck and body of the water monster."

But this view does not satisfy those who claim to have witnessed the water monster with their own eyes. People are convinced. And in the late 1970s, someone took photos of the water monster several times.