Loch Ness Monster? Real?

Question

hmmmmm.whats your take on this? im not sure my opinion.

Answer 1

The Loch Ness Monster is a mysterious and unidentified animal, claimed to inhabit Scotland's Loch Ness, the most voluminous freshwater lake in Great Britain. Along with Bigfoot and the Yeti, the Loch Ness Monster is one of the best-known mysteries of cryptozoology. Most scientists and other experts find current evidence supporting the creature's existence unpersuasive, and regard the occasional sightings as hoaxes or misidentification of known creatures or natural phenomena. However, belief in the legend persists around the world.

The creature's disputed "scientific" name, chosen by the late Sir Peter Scott, is Nessiteras rhombopteryx (Greek for "the wonder of Ness with the diamond shaped fin").

Local people, and indeed many people around the world, have affectionately referred to the animal by the feminine name of Nessie.
Description of Nessie
Many explanations have been postulated over the years to describe what kind of animal the Loch Ness Monster might be:


Plesiosaur

Plesiosaurs, by Heinrich Harder, 1916.The most common eyewitness description of Nessie, is that of a plesiosaur, a long-necked aquatic reptile that became extinct during the Cretaceous-Tertiary extinction event. Supporters of the plesiosaur theory cite the survival of a fish called the coelacanth, which supposedly went extinct along with the plesiosaur but was rediscovered off the coast of Madagascar in 1938.

On the other hand, mainstream science does offer plausible reasons why such an animal could not exist in Loch Ness. Apart from its apparent extinction, the plesiosaur was probably a cold-blooded reptile requiring warm tropical waters, while the average temperature of Loch Ness is only about 5.5°C (42°F). Even if the plesiosaurs were warm-blooded (as dinosaurs may have been), they would require a food supply beyond that of Loch Ness to maintain the level of activity necessary for warm-blooded animals. [1]

Moreover, there is no substantive evidence in the bone structure of fossilised plesiosaurs that indicate sonar capability (similar to that possessed by dolphins and whales). Such a system would be necessary in the loch, as visibility is limited to less than 15 feet due to a high peat concentration in the loch. Consequently, sunlight does not deeply penetrate the water, limiting the amount of photosynthetic algae, thereby reducing the number of plankton and fish in the food chain. Fossil evidence indicates plesiosaurs were sight hunters; it is unlikely that the loch's peat-stained water would allow such animals to hunt the limited food supply at sufficient levels.

In October 2006, Leslie Noè of the Sedgwick Museum in Cambridge pointed out that, "The osteology of the neck makes it absolutely certain that the plesiosaur could not lift its head up swan-like out of the water", precluding the possibility that Nessie is a plesiosaur. [2]


Kelpie
According to the Swedish naturalist and author Bengt Sjögren (1980), present day beliefs in lake monsters such as "Nessie" are associated with the old legends of kelpies. He claims that the accounts of lake monsters have changed over the ages, originally describing a horse appearance, they claimed that the "kelpie" would come out of the lake and turn into a horse. When a tired traveller would get on the back of the kelpie, it would gallop into the lake and devour its prey. This myth succesfully kept children away from the loch, as was its purpose. Sjögren concludes that the kelpie legends have developed into more plausible descriptions of lake monsters, reflecting awareness of plesiosaurs. In other words, the kelpie of folklore has been transformed into a more "realistic" and "contemporary" notion of the creature. Believers counter that long-dead witnesses could only compare the creature to that which they were familiar -- and were not familiar with plesiosaurs.[3]


Long-necked seal
Peter Costello posed the theory that Nessie and other reputed lake monsters were actually an unknown species of long-necked seal. This theory is supported by several sightings of the monster on land, during which the creature supposedly waddled into the loch upon being startled, in the manner of seals and sea lions.[4] However, all known species of pinnipeds are usually visible on land during daylight hours to sunbathe [5], something that Nessie was never known to do.


Elephant
A theory presented by Neil Clark, the curator of paleontology at the Hunterian Museum in Glasgow has suggested that Nessie could merely be a swimming elephant, as there was a travelling circus passing through the area during the heyday of the sightings.[6]


Eel
Some have theorized that "Nessie" could actually be a large eel. There are those who believe that an eel might have grossly enlarged in order to eat the bigger fish, or that a larger eel species inhabits the loch. But an eel could not protrude swanlike from the water as described in various sightings.[7] [8].


Other animals
Some theorists attribute the monster sightings to large pike (Esox lucius) [9], sturgeon, dolphins, a Dragon, dogs[10] (as in "The Spray Photograph"), otters, birds, and large molluscs (such as a large cephalopod or nematode).

Trees
In a 1982 series of articles for New Scientist, Dr Maurice Burton proposed that sightings of Nessie and similar creatures could actually be fermenting logs of Scots pine rising to the surface of the loch's cold waters. Initially, a rotting log could not release gases caused by decay, because of high levels of resin sealing in the gas. Eventually, the gas pressure would rupture a resin seal at one end of the log, propelling it through the water -- and sometimes to the surface. Burton claimed that the shape of tree logs with their attendant branch stumps closely resemble various descriptions of the monster.[11][12][13]

Four Scottish lochs are very deep, including Morar, Ness and Lomond. But not all lochs have monster legends; the lochs with pinewoods on their shores have the legends, but Loch Lomond -- the one with no pinewoods -- does not. Gaseous emissions and surfactants resulting from the decay of the logs can cause the foamy wake reported in some sightings. Indeed, beached pine logs showing evidence of deep-water fermentation have been found. On the other hand, there are believers who assert that some lakes do have reports of monsters, despite an absence of pinewoods. (A notable example would be the Irish lough monsters). [14].


Seiches and boat wakes

Loch NessLoch Ness, because of its long, straight shape, is subject to some unusual occurrences affecting its surface. A seiche is a large, regular oscillation of a lake, caused by a water reverting to its natural level after being blown to one end of the lake. The impetus from this reversion continues to the lake's windward end and then reverts back. In Loch Ness, the process occurs every 31.5 minutes [15].

Boat wakes can also produce strange effects in the loch. As a wake spreads and divides from a boat passing the centre of the loch, it hits both sides almost simultaneously and deflects back to meet again in the middle. The movements interact to produce standing waves that are much larger than the original wake, and can have a humped appearance. By the time this occurs, the boat has passed and the unusual waves are all that can be seen. [16] [17]

However, there are wake sightings which appear to contradict the theory, as there are wakes that occur when the loch is dead calm with no boat nearby. A bartender named David Munro claims to have witnessed a wake which he believed to be a creature zigzagging, diving and reappearing. (There were 26 other witnesses from a nearby car park). [18]). Some sightings describe the onset of a V-shaped wake, as if there were something underwater [19]. Moreover, many wake sightings describe something not conforming to the shape of a boat[20].

Answer 2

While I do believe there is something in Loch Ness, I do not think it's any sort of monster. They find giant squids, for example, in many coastal areas. I do think that at some point in history, a giant fish or sea animal got trapped in Loch Ness during a flood, and the species is still flourishing there. I have been on Loch Ness but the only monster I saw that day was my 8 year old son.

Answer 3

No, it is in basic terms a place in Scotland referred to as Loch Ness, the tale began while a guy or woman sooner or later back many some years in the past however he observed a monster interior the water which began the completed Loch Ness Monster tale. There are pictures that teach what appears like a monster of a few what whether it’s no longer genuine.

Answer 4

Hard to say. During the Ice Age, Loch Ness was completely filled with ice, and therefore uninhabitable to anything that size,, but the good news is, just as the Ice Age was ending, Loch Ness was, to some degree, directly connected with the open ocean, so if anything like the Loch Ness monster lived in the ocean, it could have ventured in there, become trapped, and these beasts are some sort of isolated relic population of similar life in the open ocean, like the reverse of human castaways.

Answer 5

I am not sure if the loch ness monster is real. It was just a trick to make us believe it was true.

Answer 6

The legend of the loch ness monster dates back to 500 B.C. I believe it was probably a myth back then, and I believe the more modern accounts are just playing off people's belief in the old myth.

Answer 7

There is a great possibility that he does exist because the Bible talks about sea serpents in Job 41 and Psalms 74:13-14 &104:26 and Isaiah 27:1
If it does exist it should be left alone and let God himself destroy it himself when he wants to Amen. God bless you have a great day.

Answer 8

The stories have been on going for many years.Many searches have been made with out success.Who really knows for sure,but its great to still have a little mystery left in this scientific world.

Answer 9

no, not real, same with the Sasquatch and various other monsters people think they see. If they were real, someone would have caught one by now.

Answer 10

no the pictures were all fake a boat a elephant trunk.
hes not rellay they searched the whole lake already