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The Loch Ness Monster is the world's most mysterious and famous unknown creature, in recent years to explore the most likely to be what?

The Loch Ness Monster is the world's most mysterious and famous unknown creature

By gaut chenPublished 3 years ago 3 min read

Loch Ness is located in the Great Glen in the northern part of the Scottish Highlands in Western Europe, the area of Loch Ness itself is not large, but it is very deep, the average depth of more than two hundred meters, the deepest of which is close to three hundred meters at the bottom of the lake. Loch Ness year-round water temperature is very low, but it is strange that the year-round does not freeze will not freeze. And the water in Loch Ness is very turbid, full of coal sludge, visibility is also very low. All these conditions laid the foundation for the subsequent world-famous Loch Ness.

If you ask what is the most mysterious, fascinating and famous unknown creature in the world? Chances are that the first thing that comes to mind is the Loch Ness Monster.

As early as fifteen hundred years ago, Scotland began rumors of a giant water monster in Loch Ness, often coming out of Loch Ness to harm domestic animals and people swimming in the lake. Some people who saw it said that it looked like the long trunk of an elephant, long neck and head, smooth body, reflecting the light in the sun; some people said that when it appeared, the water waves were very big and loud; some people saw the water monster had a huge back.

The first photo of the Loch Ness Monster was taken in 1993, and the first article about the Loch Ness Monster appeared in a newspaper in the same year, instantly becoming a global sensation. 1987 saw the largest search operation to date, at great expense, using three sonar devices, and the only information obtained was that the unidentified object was found to be larger than a shark, but slightly smaller than a whale. 2009 saw the discovery of the suspected Loch Ness Monster on Google Maps The suspected Loch Ness Monster was seen on Google Maps. However, in more time, people no matter how to search, there is nothing. Even many local people, arguing that it is nothing more than a legend.

For hundreds of years, the debate about the Loch Ness monster has been a lot, some scholars believe that there is no Loch Ness monster at all, is the refraction of light to produce the illusion. However, more scientists around the world believe that there are water monsters in Loch Ness, because Loch Ness was also an ocean hundreds of millions of years ago, and then with the movement of the earth's crust, the sea changed into a field. Finally formed today's Loch Ness, and Loch Ness is very deep, a lot of fish and shrimp, there is a high probability of ancient animals that have not yet been recognized.

In recent years, experts believe that the water monster may be the bottom of Loch Ness fault, in the seismically active period from the bottom of the water released bubbles, by people from a distance, mistaken for a water monster. And the water monster photos taken in 1933, is nothing more than a prank.

There are also experts after decades of research, that the Loch Ness monster is most likely to be an eel, because there are no natural enemies here, so it can grow to nearly ten meters and be mistaken for a water monster.

But in recent years, someone in the shallow waters of Loch Ness accidentally found a 1.5 billion year old snake neck dragon fossil, which caused a stir in the scientific community, which is enough to prove that in the Jurassic era, there was a snake neck dragon living and breeding on the shores of Loch Ness. So many scientists believe that the "Loch Ness Monster", it is likely that the descendants of the snake-necked dragon, possibly through the evolution of not yet extinct.

Scotland because of the Loch Ness Monster, every year attracts tourists from all over the world to come, hoping to see the monster with their own eyes. To date, research on the Loch Ness Monster continues, and there are more unsolved mysteries waiting to be explored and studied.

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