There are many legends circulating in the world, but like the Loch Ness Monster, there are always people who photograph and see, and they are always refuting rumors, and scientists are still persevering in studying legends. Some time ago, a research team from the University of Otago in New Zealand claimed that the so-called Loch Ness Monster may be a giant eel. However, they are not sure whether it was the DNA of giant eels or ordinary eels that were detected.
When organisms move in the biological environment, they may leave trace DNA fragments through skin, hair, feces, etc. Researchers extract possible environmental DNA by taking samples of seawater or lake water, and then compare the measured gene sequence with known organisms to draw relevant conclusions or judgments. The scientists said that there was no reptile DNA in the sample, which ruled out previous speculation that the water monster was some kind of dinosaur.
Seeing this news, netizens exploded the pot: "Giant eel? It is recommended to join the deluxe lunch series, which can be wrapped in flour and fried until golden brown, and the children next door are crying! "Loch Ness is located in the Grand Canyon in the northern part of the Scottish Highlands in the United Kingdom, and is small but deep, making it the largest freshwater lake in the Interior of the United Kingdom. Since the 6th century AD, it has been famous for a legendary water monster. The various water monsters of Loch Ness are inconsistent, and the more they say it, the more they say it, the more magical it is, and it sounds frightening. The Loch Ness Monster is one of the most mysterious and fascinating mysteries on Earth.
Some say it has the long nose of an elephant and is soft and smooth, and some people think that it is a disoriented sturgeon. Soon, a surgeon named Kenneth captured footage of the Nice Monster, a classic photograph of the Loch Ness Monster. In the photo, it has a curved neck and an upright head, resembling a plesiosaur that was extinct a long time ago.
At this time, a man named Christie suddenly revealed a jaw-dropping inside story, and the person who took the photo was a photographer named Duke, who was sent by the Daily Mail to shoot the monster in Loch Ness. At that time, Duke, who had nothing to gain, was unable to report social differences and feared being expelled, so he planned to make a fool of himself.
First he found a toy submarine, then placed a replica of the head and neck that resembled the Loch Ness Monster on it, and when his Loch Ness Monster was ready, his youngest son put the monster in the shallow water of Loch Ness, and then there was this picture. Duke persuaded Dr. Kenneth in London to put the photograph under his name, and when the doctor made it public, the social response was far beyond his imagination.
However, a British paleontologist, after years of investigation, claimed that he had solved the mystery of the Loch Ness monster, saying that there were no monsters in the lake at all, just elephants resting inside. Originally, there were some local circuses, and there were many elephants in the circus, and they used Loch Ness as a natural bathtub, but people who happened to pass by Loch Ness did not know the behavior of elephants, so they regarded it as a lake monster.
Over the years, many scientists have put forward a point of view after investigation, can Loch Ness have no water monsters at all? In 2013, for example, the BBC conducted the largest ever search of the Loch Ness Monster, using 600 sonar beams and satellite tracking to explore Loch Ness, but did not find any suspected monster giant creatures.
Some scientists said that with the development of the legend of the water monster, many people speculated that there was a plesiosaur surviving here. But the problem is that since the 1970s, people have explored Loch Ness through various methods and have not found any fossils suspected of plesiosaurs. Second, Loch Ness is too cold for reptiles, and archaeologists have learned from studying fossils that plesiosaurs were tropical creatures and were not suitable for living in such an environment.
Finally, if there really is a Loch Ness Monster, there must be a complete ethnic group. Loch Ness is too small to allow plesiosaurs or creatures of similar size to survive. Researchers at the Loch Ness Monster project say there are only about 220,000 tons of fish of all kinds in the lake, which sounds like a lot, but for the giant monsters, it is not enough food to sustain the population.
Interestingly, these theories and constantly being overturned "evidence" about the monster's non-existence have not diminished curiosity about the Loch Ness monster. According to British media, there have been more than 1,000 eyewitness reports of the Loch Ness Monster, and as the monster has become more popular, it has even become the subject of a series of documentaries and movies, and a large number of tourists and adventurers visit Loch Ness every year, hoping to see the loch Ness Monster.
In fact, with the exception of the black-and-white pose that has fooled people around the world for decades, many of the photographs and eyewitness reports are mistaken. In Loch Ness, where "grass and trees are soldiers", some driftwood, stones, and artifacts may be forcibly mistaken for water monsters by passers-by who stare at the lake in the swaying waves. However, such still lifes do not explain the origin of all eyewitness reports, and some of the "water monsters" in some reports swim as fast as snakes.
The research team at Otag University said that these so-called water monsters have eight achievements in eels. Eels are abundant in Loch Ness, and their DNA is extremely rich in this water sample. Eels can grow very large, and the largest single-jawed eel is more than 4 meters long, which can basically meet the size standards of the Loch Ness Monster. More importantly, the eel has a slender body, which is comparable to the "slender neck" and "small head" reported by the witness.
In general, there are no water monsters in Loch Ness, and the "mysterious creatures" that people see here are just phantoms of some people's imagination processing amplification, and some people hope to become famous through counterfeiting. However, for the fanatical believers of the Loch Ness Monster, as long as there is no evidence that makes them completely dead, the Loch Ness Monster is still a mystery, so compared to whether there is a Loch Ness Monster, this legend can bring economic benefits to the British tourism industry, it seems to be more secure!