They hint that these creatures routinely lived and fed in freshwater, alongside frogs, crocodiles, turtles, fish, and the huge aquatic dinosaur Spinosaurus.ĭavid Martill, co-author of the paper, said: “What amazes me is that the ancient Moroccan river contained so many carnivores all living alongside each other. The fossils include bones and teeth from three-metre long adults and an arm bone from a 1.5 metre long baby. Now the university’s findings, published in the journal Cretaceous Research, suggest the plesiosaurs were adapted to tolerate freshwater, possibly even spending their lives their, like today’s river dolphins. “They all came up and waved, and I’m like, ‘This is a bad time, we’re trying to listen for Nessie.’ But it is what it is.However cynics have argued that plesiosaurs could not have lived in Loch Ness as they needed a salwater environment. The rain was really coming down and there were a lot of boats on the water,” McNamara was quoted as saying.

volunteer Caroline McNamara told Reuters, saying her fascination began when she was in school. “I chose the Loch Ness monster as my essay assignment, and I thought, ‘Oh, 20 years later it comes full circle, so I might as well come and join the hunt’ since I heard it was happening,” U.S.

The possibility of a lurking monster has tantalized many, some of them since childhood. The loch is the largest lake by volume in the U.K. There’s still something quite special about the loch.” “There’s still other things, although they’ve not been proven.

“I think it’s just the imagination of something being in the largest body of water in the U.K. The Irish monk Saint Columba detailed an attack on a swimmer by a mysterious creature.Īt the start of the search, Gallifrey voiced faith that “the legend will continue” no matter the results. Loch Ness monster legends date as far back as 565 A.D., according to DW.

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