Discovery fuels Loch Ness Monster believers

A recent discovery by paleontologists working in Morocco’s Sahara Desert has fueled believers of the Loch Ness Monster. Dana Jacobson has more.

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[Bloody-Butterfly]

Kind of nice to hear a news story that isn’t political

[eugenedegeorge]

The only problem I have with this is very simple: in order for a species to have lived all this time it has to constantly reproduce itself .Therefore, there has to be more than one. I can't believe that with dozens (at least)of these things in the loch they are rarely seen. Also what do they feed on?

[Higher_Flight]

The real question is why wouldn’t stuff like this exist? We haven’t even explored our deep water to even know for sure.. but I don’t see why not

[zachlux]

I'm not saying Nessie is real, but we thought the same thing about wood buffalo. They were supposed to have been extinct for the last 200 years. No one had seen them at all. With all the explorers and technology, they were for sure extinct. Then we find a whole community of them a few years ago. We, as humans, don't know half of what is on this planet we live on, especially underwater.

[TeamLNE]

Regardless of what you personally believe, the subject and the Nessie community is absolutely fascinating!

[ThinDiezel]

I tend to believe anything is possible when it comes to the ocean depths and outer space.

[John_Fugazzi]

Plesiosaurs along with other aquatic reptiles including Ichthyosaurs and Mosasaurs have to breathe air (like whales and dolphins) so with thousands drawn to Loch Ness looking for them - and there would have to be enough to provide enough breeding diversity - they would have been seen and photographed many times by now as they broke the surface to breathe. Theoretically they could have developed gills but that's wildly unlikely. Even the crocodilians never did that.

[tishw]

It's fun to wonder. Besides, it's such a beautiful place to visit.

[roachtoasties]

The myth continues to keep the money coming to the Loch Ness tourist trap. I went to Loch Ness years ago and the tour operators know it's fake. They put drawing of Nessie on the windows of tour boats, so you can "photograph" the monster on your boat adventure.

[David-ypqt]

Wonderful and fascinating piece. However, plesiosaurs were not dinosaurs. They were marine reptiles who lived contemporaneously with dinosaurs, but were not dinosaurs.

[zanedavid]

I was in Scotland in 1974. While on a Tour Boat myself and 35 other people saw it for about 6 seconds
just behind the boat - no time to take pictures. People on shore also saw it and photos were taken. All
the photos were "debunked" and everyone was ridiculed. Much like the CBS Toad at the start of this video.

[gailhasler]

Sometimes it's just nice to want to believe! 🤗

[frglee]

The British naturalist Sir Peter Scott mounted a monster expedition to Loch Ness in 1975, complete with underwater cameras suspended from a boat. Blurry photographs were released to the press of rhombus-shaped fins of some kind of large underwater beastie. He imagined the underwater creature to be something like the marine plesiosaur from the early Jurassic fossil record some 190 million years back. He even provisionally named it Nessiteras rhombopteryx (Ancient Greek for "monster of Ness with diamond-shaped fin").

It turned out this was an anagram for 'Monster hoax by Sir Peter S'!

[MadScientyst]

The Loch is nearly 800ft deep in some parts & more than 20 miles long bordering Scotland & the UK. It's possible that there could be many undiscovered species within its depths, both small & large.
The water environment is known to be very 'peaty' in nature, hence visibility is extremely limited.
On the matter of food, a Lake that large must have some kind of sustainable ecosystem for aquatic life to flourish.
Given the size & majesty of the great Blue Whale, which ironically lives on the 'smallest' organisms such as Krill & Plankton and very rare to be seen, who's to say that an unknown species cannot thrive in Loch Ness in a similar fashion.
There's also the possibility that IF such a species has ancestry from the so-called Dinosaur era, it could be something entirely new or a variant which adapted & survived.
Remember the Coelacanth & Friled Shark for example?

[RonRicho]

I don't know whether Nessie is real or not (probably not) but it's a great story and Loch Ness itself is wonderful with or without her.

[ericbana]

A couple of years back myself and one of my best mates were canoeing on Loch Morar, it was a clear summers day the water was like a mirror, no wind, no other people, no boats, no waves.We had set down on a small beach on one of the islands at the west end of the loch making tea.
After a couple of minutes there was a huge disturbance in the water about a 150 feet from us just out of sight due to the dense foliage, it created waves nearly 8 inches high and we heard the soundd of something very large thrashing about in the water.We ran as quickly as we could through the bushes and trees but it took us a few minutes as there was no way through and by the time we reached the point that we believed the disturbance started the waves were dissipating.My mate is a boat owner and a highly experienced canoeist, We have canoed on many lochs for weeks at a time and he is a very blunt guy, he said he had never heard anything like it on a clear windless day with no other boat traffic and said it had to have been something huge to cause the disturbance we saw and heard,
We agreed to agree that whilst we never saw “Morag” we heard her.
To this day we have no idea what could have caused such a large still water disturbance, it only lasted about 15 seconds.
We had been swimming shortly before this happened, we didn’t swim again on that trip.

[timcampbell]

My brother and myself were fortunate to get a very good sighting many years ago on a family holiday. We were standing on elevated ground around Urquhart Castle looking down over the Loch. Something suddenly caught our eye swimming just beneath the surface approaching quickly from the right of the Castle. All I can say is it was what many have said over the years. We saw the distinct outline of a very large animal, small indistinct head attached to a long neck which was attached to a very large body, 4 flipper-like appendices and a short stumpy tail. The image has stayed with us years later, the sighting didn't last long as it moved from right to left very quickly, and it was our assertion that it was probably chasing fish near the surface

[sandhanitizer]

"Bob, listen to yourself..." Lmao

[johnnygee]

I don't believe the Loch Ness Monster ever existed, but I also believe it will never die. My inner child is OK with that.

[jorgeceles]

Antartica ice is melting new creatures will be discovered.