Scientists say Loch Ness Monster could have been real

[pesco]

Originally published at: Scientists say Loch Ness Monster could have been real | Boing Boing

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[allenk]

Loch Ness Tour Guide Doesn't Give A F**k

[cepheus42]

They said “freshwater plesiosaurs were a thing. Prior to 66 million years ago when they died out.” Only the press can translate that into “Lock Ness Monster might be real!”

[DukeTrout]

There’s also the temperature. Marine reptiles lived in warm seas. A freshwater lake that rarely gets above single-digits celsius? Not likely.

[Otherbrother]

@pesco

one strike against that theory is that plesiosaurs were thought to have been sea creatures and wouldn’t be at home in the freshwater of Loch Ness.

The Loch is freshwater?? According to The Ballad of Nessie she cried herself a lake when she had been evicted from her old pond, so I figured it was salty.

The Ballad Of Nessie (2011)

[mjlonsda]

@pesco

But the fossil record also suggests that after almost a hundred and fifty million years, the last plesiosaurs finally died out at the same time as the dinosaurs, 66 million years ago.

[Shuck]

Previously there were four things that made it completely impossible - now there are only three!

[MikeR]

I guess the fact Loch Ness was filled by a glacier until a few tens of thousands of years ago doesn’t matter?

[ludd]

The Lock Ness Monster could have been a contender. However, after years of struggling to keep shape on only a diet of freshwater fish and the occasional tourist, he realizes the time has come to throw in the towel. Ness has always been shy and introverted and will no longer be taking calls or answering fan mail. We ask that you respect his privacy in this time of the morning.

[Mitchell]

Yep, it doesn’t matter. Coming up with more bullshit to get around inconvenient facts is super easy, barely an inconvenience. Nessie, or Nessie’s ancestor, was clearly frozen in that glacier and then thawed out - Captain America or Avatar Aang style.

[Charles_Insandiego]

Uhm, no.

[BakaNeko]

[Hot Item] Loch Ness Monster Soup Ladle

[Jesse13927]

The real Loch Ness Monster is the friends we made along the way.

[tcg550]

Any excuse to post one of my favorite shows from the 70s.

In Search Of The Loch Ness Monster ... With Leonard Nimoy!

[FSogol]

Maybe we’re the real monster?

[DukeTrout]

@ludd

The Lock Ness Monster could have been a contender. However, after years of struggling to keep shape on only a diet of freshwater fish and the occasional tourist, he realizes the time has come to throw in the towel. Ness has always been shy and introverted and will no longer be taking calls or answering fan mail. We ask that you respect his privacy in this time of the morning.

For some reason, this reminds me of Weird Al’s Rye or the Kaiser.

"Weird Al" Yankovic- Rye or the Kaiser lyrics

[Doctor_Faustus]

Never mind that. It was a firth until the last ice age!

(In other words, until about 12,000 years ago, it was connected to the sea and filled with salt water)

[IRobot]

Scientists say Loch Ness Monster could have been real

Scientist says that Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny have unnatural relations with a goat… see? I said it!

[the_borderer]

[BakaNeko]

Beany e Cecil - Beany e o Monstro Monstruoso [Herbert Richers]