The beautiful planet we live on is 4.6 billion years old, and the history of human development and evolution is more than 5 million years, in fact, it is up to 200,000 years from the beginning of Homo sapiens. Of course, we have developed relatively quickly, evolved an intelligent civilization, and can look at the world and the universe more rationally and scientifically.
But who dares to say that they have truly seen through the world, this vast land with a history of 4.6 billion years, after all, human beings are only one of millions of passers-by, not the masters of the earth.
Earth life originated in the ocean, there is a natural dependence and closeness to water, human beings originated in Africa, and subsequent development and evolution are mostly concentrated in places with suitable temperatures, abundant rainfall and fertile land. 70% of the earth's surface area is covered by oceans, while humans are only active on 30% of the land, and there are a large number of no-man's land, and the environment is harsh and uninhabited. If there are still unknown secrets of human beings on the earth, then the most likely will be the rivers, lakes and seas on the earth!
<h1 class = "pgc-h-arrow-right" > the constantly witnessed Loch Ness Monster</h1>
Loch Ness is the third largest freshwater lake in the UK, located in the Scottish Highlands Gorge, the entire lake is narrow and long, with a length of 37 km, while the widest place is only 2.4 km. Loch Ness is not very large, but as a lake it is deep enough, modern science to detect the deepest part of Loch Ness can reach 300 meters, the average depth is about 200 meters.
Loch Ness has a low water temperature and visibility of only a few meters, so there are few people going into the water, but the scenery on both sides of the river is beautiful, especially after the convenience of transportation.
Loch Ness is actually an ordinary lake, because of the many eyewitness records of water monsters, making it world-famous and well-known around the world. The first Loch Ness Monster is recorded as having sightings dating back to 1500 years ago, in the 6th century. A missionary led his servants to swim in Loch Ness, when suddenly an unknown beast came upon them, and the missionary reacted quickly, saving the servant's life, and they supported each other to escape from Loch Ness, and the legend of the Loch Ness Monster began.
More and more witnesses claim to have seen the Loch Ness Monster, and as it has evolved, many have photographed unidentified objects in Loch Ness. Roughly the image in the photograph above, this is also the most famous one, taken by Hugh Gray in 1933, with a long neck sticking out of the water, according to eyewitness accounts, scientists believe that it is more similar to plesiosaur. Could it be that the prehistoric remnants left a lonely plesiosaur that continues to this day?
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > let's see what plesiosaurs really are. </h1>
It lived in the oceans of the Mesozoic Era, developed and evolved as early as the Late Triassic, reached its peak during the Jurassic Period, and ended up in the Late Cretaceous Period, as with most other dinosaurs, when an asteroid with a diameter of 10 km struck the Earth and eventually went extinct.
Some people suspect that the Loch Ness Monster is a remnant of the plesiosaur, but this claim is unlikely, to know that loch Ness has a short history of formation, did not appear in the Cretaceous period, it was formed more than 10,000 years ago due to melting ice, and plesiosaur is believed to have been extinct as early as 65 million years ago.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > the results of exploration by modern scientific and technological means</h1>
People are tired of discussing what the Loch Ness Monster really is, and in 2018 Neil Gemmel, a professor at the University of Otago in New Zealand, led a team to investigate the Loch Ness Monster. The way they took it was to take important samples directly at different locations in Loch Ness was the most straightforward approach.
Scientists believe that as long as the animals living in Loch Ness inevitably leave skin particles, scales and even urine excrement and other substances, then by analyzing these samples, some possible species can be screened. The team collected 250 samples from different locations and depths in Loch Ness, and after analysis, found dna from many mammals, including humans.
However, it was not found that the prehistoric animals such as plesiosaurs that everyone had previously guessed, or species such as sturgeon and catfish that could grow into giant figures. To the curiosity of scientists, the presence of eels, which can grow several meters long, is found in most of the samples, but is mostly distributed in the ocean. Scientists speculate that the Loch Ness Monster may be related to eels. But where there is also a lot of controversy in this view, it is not accepted by most people.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > new interpretation of the Loch Ness Monster</h1>
Henry Ball, a professor of natural sciences at the Virginia Institute of Technology, previously gave a new explanation, arguing that there may be an ancient turtle species in Loch Ness that was trapped in Loch Ness during the last Ice Age, because according to all the current cases describing the Loch Ness Monster, there are many turtle species characteristics. Turtles have a long neck and are also very tolerant of their natural environment, adapting to the low temperatures of Loch Ness.
Of course, at present, this statement is still speculation, not a scientific conclusion based on observational research.
< h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > summary</h1>
The Loch Ness Monster is one of the most representative, and in fact there are related legends in most of the world's waters, which are mysterious because they are unknown. We like to exaggerate the conjecture about the unknown, and the Loch Ness Monster may be a prehistoric relic that people have not recorded.
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