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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
14408 Posts |
 Posted - 11/05/2006 : 04:36:15
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Here's an interesting article: quote:
Scientist pours cold water on Loch Ness dinosaur theory
SHÂN ROSS
(sross@scotsman.com)
A LOCH Ness Monster theory which suggests the creature is a living dinosaur has been dealt a blow by scientists.
Many believe that Nessie is a plesiosaur, a long-necked marine reptile which sought refuge in Scotland's second-largest freshwater loch when most of the species died out 160 million years ago.
But Dr Leslie Noe, a palaeontologist at Cambridge University's Sedgwick Museum, discovered that the plesiosaur would have been unable to lift its head up, swan-like, out of the water.
Lessee now, Dr. Dino, who enspoused Nessie as well as decomposed basking shark carcasses as arguing points for his delusions, is currently out of circulation. Who then will take up the standard? Someone must, lest the Loch's tourist industry goes into the tank -- not unlike Hovind himself. 
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
15831 Posts |
 Posted - 11/05/2006 : 05:26:37 [Permalink]
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I highly doubt anything unusual is in that lake. It's been combed through very well, and I'm convinced that the sightings are myths, lies, mistakes, or hoaxes. Judging from the responses on "The Scotsman" Web site, belief in, or at least promotion of, Nessie is considered a national point of honor by many Scots.
But if anything exists behind the "sightings," it probably would be a small, remnant population of an unknown species of seal or sea lion, and not especially large animals. Lake Baikal, far inland in Siberia, has its own isolated species of seal. A pinniped in the Loch is conceivable, though both unlikely and unevidenced.
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“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
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