A huge snake-like creature, captured by an underwater camera in an alpine Scottish lake, supports a new theory about the nature of the monster that lives in it.
The footage, which, according to their authors, captured the Loch Ness monster, was shared by amateur anglers from the Ness Fishery Board section. Their small vessels ply from time to time the vastness of the high-mountainous Scottish Loch Ness and conduct underwater surveys in order to find out where there are more fish.
One of the commercials brought a rich "catch" Vaguely visible. But you can distinguish the silhouette. Something that looks like a huge snake floats in front of the camera lens. Loch Ness monster? Nessie, as locals and tourists affectionately call him?
It is likely that a creature, which is mistaken for a legendary monster, really got into the frame. And the creature is a giant eel. What turned out to be on the video of the anglers is very similar.
A snake-like creature in footage from the bottom of Loch Ness.
Exactly a monster: a giant 10-meter eel that now pretends to be Nessie.
The video with Nessie the Eel was filmed a few days before the results of the search for the genetic material of the Loch Ness monster, begun more than a year ago, were announced.
Scientists from different countries, led by Professor Neil Gemmell (professor Neil Gemmell) from the University of Otago in New Zealand (University of Otago in New Zealand), surveyed Loch Ness. The main goal was not hidden. I really wanted to know if a monster lives in the lake? Inhabits now? Was it in the old days?
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The researchers analyzed the so-called environmental DNA (eDNA) - genetic material that could be isolated from pieces of skin, mucus, scales, urine, poop and other "good" left by various inhabitants of the lake in the course of their life.
Samples for analysis were collected from 300 places on the lake - including from great depths.
The detected DNA fragments were sequenced, obtaining a total of more than 500 million sequences. We compared them with the existing databases.
Professor Gemmel did not find any lizards in the lake.
The Loch Ness monster should have been indicated by some unknown genetic material, or, conversely, known, but belonging to extinct animals. After all, it is believed that Nessie is a plesiosaur that has miraculously survived to this day - a prehistoric lizard that looks like such a huge bag with either fins, or with paws and a long neck.
Comparison of DNA from the lake and DNA from databases testified: there are no prehistoric dinosaurs in the lake. And it was not in the foreseeable past.
What then did people see and still see? According to the professor, giant eels are misleading observers. Gemmel believes that their length reaches almost 2 meters. DNA analysis from the environment confirmed that individuals of this size are definitely found in the lake. And according to Richard Freeman of the Center for Fortean Zoology, giant eels can be up to 10 meters in length.
“Real monsters in the truest sense of the word,” he said in an interview with The Times.
According to DNA analysis, the Loch Ness monster cannot be anything but an eel. It is not a crocodile, not a sturgeon, not a seal.
The "video from the bottom" from the fishermen in its own way confirms: the loch-ness is most likely an eel - observers take its long body for Nessie's neck. Or even for herself.
VLADIMIR LAGOVSKY