Earth is a complex world full of life, large animals can be seen everywhere, tigers, lions, black bears, elephants, giraffes, bison, these animals should be familiar to everyone, but some experts believe that there is an unknown large creature on earth, larger than an elephant, hidden in the sparsely populated Lake Ness in northern Scotland.
When the legend of the Loch Ness Monster began no one knows, anyway, it has been hundreds of years old, it is said that the Loch Ness Monster looks strange, has a giraffe-like long neck, a horse-like head, can spit smoke, in order to better hide itself, it often creates a lot of smoke to cover the lake, making it mysterious.
Some people even suspect that the Loch Ness Monster may not have been extinct plesiosaurs, after the 5th mass extinction, the surviving plesiosaurs hid in Loch Ness, Scotland, living an isolated life, occasionally coming out to breathe, plesiosaurs were once the overlords of the sea during the Jurassic period, whether it is the size or appearance characteristics are closer to the legendary water monsters.
For hundreds of years, people have wondered if the Loch Ness Monster really exists. But the true and false seem to be more and more mysterious the study, and now an American expert has a new view of the Loch Ness Monster, directly negating the view of the plesiosaur, the truth of the Loch Ness Monster has come?
Is the Loch Ness Monster a thousand-year-old turtle?
Recently, Henry Bauer, an expert from Virginia Tech and State University in the United States, conducted a study of the Loch Ness Monster, and the Loch Ness Monster that people saw had the following characteristics: first, it needed to be exposed to the water to breathe air after staying underwater for a long time, second, it moved very fast in the water, and third, it could remain active in very cold water.
So Henry Bauer suspected that the closest animal to these characteristics was the sea turtle, henry bauer speculated that after the end of the Earth's ice age, the water level dropped rapidly, and then the unfortunate sea turtle was trapped in Loch Ness, slowly adapting to the environment, becoming a thousand-year-old sea turtle.
Henry Ball's views undoubtedly provide a unique insight into the Loch Ness Monster, but whether the Loch Ness Monster is a giant turtle remains to be further revealed by scientists, and it is believed that one day the truth will be revealed. In fact, this is not the first time scientists have studied the Loch Ness Monster, and after 1934, several research teams have conducted field studies on Loch Ness.
Over the last century, multiple research teams returned empty-handed
In 1934, the "surgeon photo" made a lot of noise around the world, and later it was proved to be fake, but it still received great attention from people, in order to verify the authenticity of the legend, a number of research teams came to Loch Ness, hoping to borrow advanced equipment to discover this possible Loch Ness monster.
The research team used state-of-the-art equipment, such as installing a large number of cameras in the area where the Loch Ness Monster often appears, waiting for the monster to appear, in order to make the monster appear automatically, the researchers did not hesitate to throw a large amount of tempting bacon into the lake, almost all kinds of underwater animals appeared, they rushed to eat, but there were no unidentified species.
Could it be that the Loch Ness Monster is too clever, unencived, and hidden? Later, a research team deliberately put a number of state-of-the-art sonar systems in the bottom of Loch Ness, hoping to find large objects, and although the sonar system allowed researchers to confirm the existence of a rich fish species in Loch Ness, there were still no new discoveries, and finally returned empty-handed.
New discoveries in 2018
In 2018, another scientist named Gemmmell, a geneticist, had been obsessed with the Loch Ness monster and tracked it for 10 years, sampling 250 locations on the lake surface and then using DNA technology to pair cells in the sample with underwater animals.
On September 5, 2019, Gemmell announced the results of the investigation at a press conference, saying that no water monsters had been found, but they had made new discoveries in Loch Ness, a large animal DNA, DNA from eels, so gemmel suspected that the Loch Ness Monster may be a giant eel, larger than we usually see, can grow to 7 to 8 meters long.
There have been multiple sightings in 2020
The Loch Ness Monster is one of the world's largest unsolved mysteries, known to the world, hence the name Loch Ness, with several new witnesses added almost every year, and in 2020, I know more than 3 sightings, which may actually be more.
In April 2020, a man named Jøne Offad Hagel saw an unknown creature swimming on the surface of Urquhart Bay in Loch Ness. In September 2020, a visitor saw a mysterious black creature swimming around, but curiously, the black creature did not have a long visible neck.
In October 2020, Ronald Mackenzie, a 49-year-old Loch Ness monster hunter, reported a breakthrough discovery because he used his latest sonar system to discover a 10-meter-wide unknown creature under 170 meters deep water in Loch Ness that had coexisted in the sonar system for 10 seconds and is still uncertain what it is.
In short, until now, the Loch Ness Monster is still in an unsolved state, and the truth is waiting for experts to further reveal the secret, do you have any views on this? Interesting scientific exploration content, please pay attention to the only WeChat public account: Interesting Exploration