Loch Ness, located in the Grand Canyon in the north of the British Scottish Plateau, the lake area is not large, about 1800 square kilometers, is the third largest freshwater lake in the United Kingdom, and the area is 200 square kilometers smaller than China's Jiangsu Hongze Lake. However, Loch Ness is very deep, with an average depth of 200 meters and a maximum depth of 298 meters.
Just as the so-called "mountains and high water depths and dangers", coupled with the steep shores of Loch Ness, the lake is full of peat visibility is very low, not frozen all year round but the temperature is not suitable for swimming, gradually a legend appeared - "there are monsters in Loch Ness", and even a photo of the water monster, just at this time, The University of Otago in New Zealand Professor Gemer declared that he wanted to unveil the mystery of the water monster, but he did not choose to wait for the rabbit, but only took a boat on the lake to take water a few times to unveil the mystery, is this the real skill or in the show?
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > the origin of the legend of the water monster</h1>
The legend of the Loch Ness Monster can be traced back to 565 AD, when the Irish missionary St. Columbus and the servants were swimming in Loch Ness, suddenly a water monster attacked the servant, with the help of St. Columbus and other servants, this unfortunate servant escaped from the mouth of the water monster, since then, the news of the water monster in Loch Ness has been spread for ten centuries, with a record of up to 100,000.
Of course, modern people treat this legend controversially, St. Columber's experience is simply full of loopholes, it looks more like a story made up to brag about his own heroism, but with the construction of the Loch Ness Highway, there are still many curious people who want to try their luck, in case they really meet?
Stills from the movie Loch Ness Monster
This "just in case" appeared in April 1934, when the London doctor Wilson, passing through Loch Ness, found the monster paddling on the surface of the water, and took a picture of the monster with the camera, although the photo is very blurry, but it can still distinguish the long neck and small head of the monster, the monster does not look like any known creature, nor like a shape creature or a ghost, but very similar to the plesiosaur that was extinct seventy million years ago.
With the twentieth-century cult of dinosaurs, the film's various dinosaur-themed films were highly sought after, and the Loch Ness Monster and the plesiosaurs left behind in Loch Ness were naturally linked, and some people did not believe it at the time, until April 1960, when the British aeronautical engineer Dinster made a film in Loch Ness, and a long-necked black giant creature could be seen at the screening of the water downstream of Loch Ness.
The discussion about the Loch Ness Monster is not whether there is or what it is, but how to find this ancient plesiosaur.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > Germmel's discovery surfaced the prototype of the Loch Ness Monster</h1>
In the 1970s, more and more scientists used advanced underwater cameras and sonar instruments to participate in the search for the Loch Ness monster, but the water quality in Loch Ness was low in turbidity, the underwater terrain was crisscrossed, and the waves overlapped because of the temperature difference, and even advanced equipment was difficult to play a role. However, scientists have found many large fish, and at more than 210 meters, they have found traces of Arctic chickadee.
For a time, all those who have been to Loch Ness have reached the level of grass and trees, who have been to Loch Ness, not to say that they have seen the traces of water monsters, they are not embarrassed to say that they have played cards, what branches, foam garbage, and even flickering light have become the "water monsters" in the mouths of tourists.
It wasn't until the team led by Germel, a professor at the University of Otago in New Zealand, began investigating the Loch Ness Monster.
Gemmel's method is more advanced, and he uses a method for measuring environmental DNA. Its environment is complex and extremely difficult to find, then do not necessarily find the real body of the monster to identify the existence of the monster, the monster lives in Loch Ness, eating and drinking Lasa are inside, then there will be monster secretions, excrement, skin mucosa fragments and corpse tissue, its DNA will be left in the environment, only need to measure whether there is abnormal undecorated DNA in the water to prove the existence of the Loch Ness monster.
Gemmel's team sailed a boat to collect 250 water samples at different times and deep in different regions and depths on the lake surface, and sequenced the DNA samples in them, and after analysis, it was found that there were thousands of DNA from different species in these 250 water samples, from insects to fish to birds, as well as cattle and sheep, pet dogs and even people's DNA, but no unknown DNA was found, that is, there was no unknown mysterious water monster, let alone plesiosaur.
< h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > what the prototype of the Lake Ness Monster is</h1>
Since it does not exist, what is the giant aquatic creature that has been measured by different scientists for so long, and is this not a slap in the face of the predecessors?
Gemmel's team speculated that the most found in the sample is the DNA of eels, Loch Ness is rich in eels, eels can grow very large, of which the largest single-jawed eel member can be more than 4 meters long, slender body fully meets the length of the neck of "plesiosaur".
As for what the real body of the Loch Ness Monster is, there is no definite answer, the only certainty is that the Loch Ness Monster does not exist, and one of the participants in the 1934 Photo shoot of the Loch Ness Monster, before dying, told the truth of the forged photo and repented for it, the "Water Monster" is actually a combination of a toy submarine and a neck made of wood.
< h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > concluding remarks</h1>
Today, whether loch Ness has become less important, and now Loch Ness has developed into a monster-themed attraction, attracting a large number of tourists, and by the loch Ness commercial organization jointly submitted a request to UNESCO to declare a world cultural heritage, once successful, the status of loch Ness will be close to the Great Wall of China and the Pyramids of Egypt.