Loch Ness

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Naish, Darren. "Books on the Loch Ness Monster 3: The Man Who Filmed Nessie: Tim Dinsdale and the Enigma of Loch Ness". Tetrapod Zoology. Archived from the original on 6 November 2023 . Retrieved 6 November 2023.

Carroll, Robert Todd (2011) [2003], The Skeptic's Dictionary: A Collection of Strange Beliefs, Amusing Deceptions, and Dangerous Delusions, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., pp.200–201, ISBN 978-0-471-27242-7, archived from the original on 16 October 2021 , retrieved 15 November 2020However in 2018 The Loch Ness Project assisted a team from Otago University, New Zealand led by Prof Neil Gemmell that analysed the DNA found throughout the massive loch.

Nessie's Secret Revealed". yowieocalypse.com. Archived from the original on 4 January 2015 . Retrieved 3 January 2015. Wakes have been reported when the loch is calm, with no boats nearby. Bartender David Munro reported a wake he believed was a creature zigzagging, diving, and reappearing; there were reportedly 26 other witnesses from a nearby car park. [99] [ bettersourceneeded] Although some sightings describe a V-shaped wake similar to a boat's, [107] others report something not conforming to the shape of a boat. [59] Trees Things were stepped up a notch in October 1987, when Nessie hunter and marine biologist Adrian Shine led ‘Operation Deepscan’ – at the time, the most extensive search of Loch Ness ever conducted.Instigated a study of recent Loch Ness sediments to define patterns and processes and recent human impact. Designed and built a one metre coring system for deep water and obtained cores for a wide variety of invited collaborations and dissertations. A large European eel was an early suggestion for what the "monster" was. Eels are found in Loch Ness, and an unusually large one would explain many sightings. [118] Dinsdale dismissed the hypothesis because eels undulate side to side like snakes. [119] Sightings in 1856 of a "sea-serpent" (or kelpie) in a freshwater lake near Leurbost in the Outer Hebrides were explained as those of an oversized eel, also believed common in "Highland lakes". [120]

Dry weather in recent weeks has led to the Scottish Environment Protection Agency (Sepa) issuing a water scarcity alert in parts of the country.Scott, Peter; Rines, Robert (1975). "Naming the Loch Ness monster". Nature. 258 (5535): 466. Bibcode: 1975Natur.258..466S. doi: 10.1038/258466a0. Nathan Critchlow-Watton, Sepa’s head of water and planning, said: “For the risk of water scarcity to have reached significant this early in the summer is extremely concerning and leaves no doubt that the next few months are going to be very challenging for all those who rely on the water environment to run their business. Knowles. "The Loch Ness Monster is still a mystery". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on 22 September 2019. I’d like to think that there was more to it, but there probably isn’t. It is interesting to think about, though,” he said. However, scientists need to be open-minded, he said, adding it “would be arrogant to say there is no chance” they exist. River Monsters' Finale: Hunt For Loch Ness Monster And Greenland Shark (Video)". The Huffington Post. 28 May 2013. Archived from the original on 2 April 2015 . Retrieved 28 December 2014.

It’s called cognitive dissonance when you get bad news about your world view,” Shine said about the continued belief in the monster. “There are two ways out of it. Denial: In the case of the Loch Ness Monster this means dismissing years of investigation, and claiming the monster is hiding in caves at the bottom of the Loch, hiding from sonar. You’d say that the 20 percent of DNA found in Loch Ness as unreadable meant something, or that the research was faulty.” Even when visiting on a dreary Tuesday afternoon, the steel-gray sky reflecting off the loch’s restless undulations as anorak-clad day-trippers mill from shabby tearoom to souvenir store, Loch Ness is still a fair bit more than the tourist trap of expectation. The mystery will be retained because there is some uncertainty around all the scientific approaches thus far used to look for evidence of a monster,” Professor Gemmell told The Daily Beast.a b "Loch Ness Monster Hoaxes". Museumofhoaxes.com. Archived from the original on 21 April 2010 . Retrieved 28 April 2010. Smith, Oliver (2023). "Nessie and Noctilucent Clouds: A Meteorological Explanation for Some Loch Ness Monster Sightings". Coolabah (34): 25–45. Archived from the original on 6 July 2023 . Retrieved 7 July 2023. Adrian Shine, naturalist and longtime leader of the Loch Ness Project, which studies Loch Ness, dismissed the new photograph as a likely fake. J. A Carruth Loch Ness and its Monster, (1950) Abbey Press, Fort Augustus, cited by Tim Dinsdale (1961) Loch Ness Monster pp. 33–35