Finally, all those Nessie souvenirs picked up by people visiting Scotland could very well be reproductions of the real Loch Ness monster.
A new report from researchers at the University of Portsmouth say they discovered some fossils that indicate the Loch Ness monster might not be a myth after all.
In any case, the researcher’s find is as fascinating as they come.
They discovered some plesiosaurs fossils in a river system – not in Scotland but in Morocco, in the Kem Kem region.
Up until now, scientists thought that plesiosaurs – the dinosaurs that most closely resemble the mythical Scottish monster – were exclusively found in saltwater. It followed that a creature like Nessie couldn’t possibly live in Loch Ness, a freshwater lake.
Now, with the discovery of remains including bones and teeth from three-meter-long adults, all of them found in freshwater, the researchers think that plesiosaurs adapted to tolerate and actually live in non-marine conditions.
If Nessie was real, what’s next? We hope for the unicorn, Scotland’s official animal.
Image by Kim Alaniz from Paleo Hall at HMNS
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