Could the Loch Ness Monster be a Plesiosaur?

Today we finally finish up Loch Ness by speculating what the monster could be if I am completely wrong about it's apparent non-existence. I talk largely about plesiosaurs and leeches... so I hope you enjoy ;)

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[johnmace]

Nessie being a leech is a LOT scarier than Nessie being a plieseousaur.

[zennyfieldster]

I would rather swim with a giant reptile any day than with a giant Leach if given the choice!

[Mechaghostman]

There's a scientist that has dedicated his life to studying this creature, and he thinks that it's most likely a sturgeon. Yep, just a big fish.

[justsomenessiewithinternet]

No matter what plans you humans have, you will never catch me...

[notgonnapay]

"Well it was about this time I noticed this girl scout was about 8 stories tall and was a crustacean from the Paleozoic Era."

[InfamousAMH]

*Imagine if the lochness is a giant lamprey.*

[uwunya]

interesting theory! i absolutely hate the idea of a leech that large existing, though.

[blondbraid]

Personally, I find the photo of seals swimming in a row being mistaken for a large serpent-like creature at 0:37 to be the most likely explanation for the sightings,
there have been seals observed visiting the lake from time to time.

[ricecandance]

And the Loch Ness Monster








A Basking Owl Shark

[brianjacob]

Given that Loch Ness was under a mile of ice during the last glacial maximum, "Nessie" wouldn't have been an air breather, so that rules out any type of reptile.

[someguy]

Trey 2017: "In summary Plesiosaurs are deaf, living torpedoes with bad neck posture."
(Slowly Claps)

[jackalope]

Wild Speculation:

Nessie and her kin are giant relatives of soft shell turtles. Soft shell turtles are capable holding their breath for up to a month because they can partially extract oxygen from water through internal structures in the throat. Soft shell turtles are also noted for having very long necks for turtles, and their nostrils are on the front of their faces (some even have short elephant like snouts they use like snorkels!) so it's easy for them to just stick only the tip of their nose out of the water to catch that monthly breath of air.

Due to the coldness of the water and relative lack of large food creatures, I propose that giant lake turtles take a weakness of most turtles and turn it into an advantage. Turtles have slow metabolisms and NessieKin are even slower than normal. One spends majority of a month resting in the bottom of the lake, where is easily mistaken for a large submerged boulder, barely awake. Should the turtle sense a fish (or school of fish or a non cautious juvenile NessieKin) large enough to be worth eating, it rapidly extends its neck with his jaws open to catch prey. After multiple weeks on the lake bed, NessieKin become active swimmers for a few days; breathing daily, hunting (large fish, juvenile NessieKin and the rare mammal) and mating. Due to this metabolism NessieKin are some of the longest lived animals ever, with potential life spans in centuries although few live long enough to reach adulthood due to cannibalism.

NessieKin only come on land to lay small eggs. The newborns are visually similar to adult normal turtles that only a herpetologist would notice something odd about them. Growth is slow (20 to 50 years) and adult NessieKin are their greatest threat. As the juvenile matures, the feet become flippers and the scutes do not grow. Rather, they separate as the flesh, bone and skin underneath expands.

About the swan pose. NessieKin only do it when mating (which happens underwater). The weight of the male causes the female's inflexible body to tilt. Witnesses report the familiar long neck/small head and mistake part the female's back for a hump. Sometimes the male's head and the front part of the male's back are mistaken for extra humps. (Lol, hump.)

[munchmaster]

But did the giant leech have feathers?

[davewolf]

I once listened to a radio program where a zoologist was interviewed about Loch Ness. He suggested it may have been an oceanic eel that never mated, and experienced decades of growth. The most believable explanation I have heard so far.

[thegoatcarnival]

I remember there being a movie I used to watch with my mom. I think it was called “Water Horse” or something along those lines. I don’t remember that much about it, but I think it was meant to be about a kid finding a Loch Ness Monster egg, hatching it, and raising it until he releases it into the lake. And I think at the end it cuts to him as an old man finishing off the story and there being a big reveal that he was the kid.

As I don’t really remember much of the actual plot, I don’t have an opinion, but I remember being so interested in the movie purely because of the graphics.

[disfigurative]

it's probably just a drowning kid

[beek.]

This is the coolest, most plausible, and freakiest explanation for Nessie. I love it.

[serversurfer]

0:45 I never knew Red Skull fought Nessie … 🤔

[halberd-]

The Loch Ness Leech will forever haunt my nightmares.

Tersch.

[manospondylus]

The leech hypothesis would actually explain the very first sighting from 1933 really well.