Post by Morose on Jun 29, 2024 12:45:34 GMT -5
It's always been thought that Nessie, if she exists, is a Plesiosaur. Technically speaking, animals like this aren't classed as being dinosaurs. They belong to a separate group of marine reptiles.
Anyway, I see no reason to think that Nessie doesn't exist and, to be honest, ANYTHING could still be living out there. We know more about the moon than we do about our oceans and it's been proved that supposedly-extinct marine animals do still exist. Up until the 1930s, it was believed that the Coelacanth, a type of lobe-finned fish, had gone extinct along with the dinosaurs at the end of the Cretaceous. Then, in December 1938, a live Coelacanth was caught off the coast of South Africa. Therefore, I believe it's entirely possible that other supposedly-extinct animals could still exist.
Anyway, I see no reason to think that Nessie doesn't exist and, to be honest, ANYTHING could still be living out there. We know more about the moon than we do about our oceans and it's been proved that supposedly-extinct marine animals do still exist. Up until the 1930s, it was believed that the Coelacanth, a type of lobe-finned fish, had gone extinct along with the dinosaurs at the end of the Cretaceous. Then, in December 1938, a live Coelacanth was caught off the coast of South Africa. Therefore, I believe it's entirely possible that other supposedly-extinct animals could still exist.
There may have been a time when something like the Loch Ness monster was plausible, but I believe that time has passed.
Whatever it may, or may not have been; Loch Ness is a finite area, with finite resources. Something larger than sturgeons or seals, like the Plesiosaur some people theorized Nessie could have been, would have decimated the ecosystem of that lake over the 70+ years of reported activity.
There's also the fact that Loch Ness itself was formed millions of years after the Plesiosaurs went extinct, there's simply no way for a large marine dinosaur to have migrated into the area, and somehow maintained a healthy population over the centuries without it being discovered. It'd simply be too large an animal for such a small area.
Cryptozoology is an interesting field, but at some point I think you just have to face facts; Dinosaurs couldn't have survived in lakes this long, and not be noticed.
Whatever it may, or may not have been; Loch Ness is a finite area, with finite resources. Something larger than sturgeons or seals, like the Plesiosaur some people theorized Nessie could have been, would have decimated the ecosystem of that lake over the 70+ years of reported activity.
There's also the fact that Loch Ness itself was formed millions of years after the Plesiosaurs went extinct, there's simply no way for a large marine dinosaur to have migrated into the area, and somehow maintained a healthy population over the centuries without it being discovered. It'd simply be too large an animal for such a small area.
Cryptozoology is an interesting field, but at some point I think you just have to face facts; Dinosaurs couldn't have survived in lakes this long, and not be noticed.
