Loch Ness Monster Sighted, captured on video

So say the CNN and The LA Times. The video seems so credible that the BBC telecast it recently. It seems FireFox doesn’t show the video on the CNN website. It again and again said that you need the Windows Media Player even when I’ve got it installed on my laptop. It worked on IE7.

If somehow you don’t know what’s Loch Ness Monster (Nessie) it’s a dragon that has been “spotted” multiple times in the Scottish lake called Loch Ness. Some say it is a giant lizard that survived the Jurassic age and lives in the lake, and occasionally comes to the surface. A good description of the Loch Ness Monster can be found on Wikipedia that says:

The most common eyewitness description of Nessie, is that of a plesiosaur, a long-necked aquatic reptile that became extinct during the Cretaceous-Tertiary extinction event. Supporters of the plesiosaur theory cite the survival of a fish called the coelacanth, which supposedly went extinct along with the plesiosaur but was rediscovered off the coast of Madagascar in 1938.

On the other hand, mainstream science does offer plausible reasons why such an animal could not exist in Loch Ness. Apart from its apparent extinction, the plesiosaur was probably a cold-blooded reptile requiring warm tropical waters, while the average temperature of Loch Ness is only about 5.5°C (42°F). Even if the plesiosaurs were warm-blooded, they would require a food supply beyond that of Loch Ness to maintain the level of activity necessary for warm-blooded animals.

There is even a website dedicated to the Loch Ness Monster.

Several scientific studies have been conducted, including thorough sonar surveys of the loch, and these have not revealed any presence of such a “monster”. But then many people say it’s a very big lake (21 square miles) and very deep (almost 800 feet), and there might be hundreds of underwater caves where the monster might be hiding all the time.

My take is, doesn’t it procreate, and doesn’t it get sick or die? And how did it come there in the first place? Was it born there or did it reach the lake through some passage? If it was born there, then what about its parents? Although I wouldn’t outrightly discount the sightings (I like believing in such things) but I think logically it is very difficult for a monster, or a dinosaur, to exist there is solitude of hundreds, or thousands, or may be millions of years.

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