Loch Ness is a arresting lake in the Scottish Highlands and with a surface area of 56 straight kilometers ( 22 square stat mi ) , it is the secondly - big freshwater lake in the European nation . But its worldwide title to fame is less about its beauty or physical characteristics and more to do with the legend of the Loch Ness Monster , an aquatic beast say to live in the water .
The popularity of Nessie , as the fictional monster is dub , first arose in the 1930s and since then " sightings " have multiplied . Several scientific investigations have looked for grounds of the beast but neglect to find any , because freak are not real .
If you are funny about what might be behind some of the sightings ( beyond japery and swim logs ) , a chemical group of research worker from New Zealand has seek to catalog all living metal money present in the loch by take out DNA from body of water sample . The team did not find any unusual DNA from creatures like catfish or Greenland shark , which have antecedently been put forward to explain Nessie sightings .
" There is a very pregnant amount of eel DNA . Eels are very bountiful in Loch Ness , with eel DNA found at jolly much every location sampled – there are a batch of them . So – are they giant eel ? ” undertaking leader Professor Neil Gemmell , a geneticist from New Zealand ’s University of Otago , toldBBC News . " Well , our data does n’t divulge their sizing , but the see-through amount of the material enunciate that we ca n’t discount the possible action that there may be giant eels in Loch Ness . Therefore , we ca n’t discount the possibility that what people see and believe is the Loch Ness Monster might be a giant eel . "
The mind that elephantine eels are behind the legendary creature has been distribute for decades but it has often been dismissed as the animals float side to side , like how a snake moves . Plesiosaurs have also been suggested to explicate the sightings , despite the fact this group of creatures endure extinct 66 million years ago .
A recent video recording , published just a few days before the raw inquiry came out , showed an eel in the River Ness , which flows out of the loch . The Ness Fishery Board , who shared the video , point out on how the sinuous silhouette of an eel in the murky urine reminded them of the mythological fauna .
[ H / T : BBC News ]
