Unraveling the Mystery of the Appearance of a Great Being in the Scottish Highlands

Liputan6.com, Jakarta – The international public was shocked by the appearance of a large creature around Loch Ness, a deep water lake in the Scottish Highlands.

The supposedly prehistoric aquatic reptiles are called plesiosaurs—or giant freshwater fish like sturgeons. In fact, Drumnadrochit forestry and firefighter Ross MacAulay has lived his entire life around Loch Ness.

However, Ross now has to reconsider his doubts after photographing what appears to be a 12-foot-long creature on his cellphone.

The 35-year-old man claimed to have caught Nessie’s first sighting at Loch Ness on his cell phone. Right on July 8, as Ross was driving just outside Fort Augustus, he looked out into the water, about 200 feet below the road and noticed something odd.

“There were a few kayaks (small human powered boats), but 100 meters in front of the kayak there was something beneath the surface,” he explained.

Ross began to watch him for five minutes. He noticed the creature that had no long neck, no head, only a hump.

He estimates it to be about 12 feet long and 4 feet wide. Loch Ness The light gray color went down to the bottom of the water and then rose again and then disappeared.

The creature, commonly called Nessie, is often described as having a large dinosaur-like body, a long neck, with a hump or two protruding from the water.

Popular belief in Nessie has varied since the issue was first brought to the world’s public domain in 1933. Evidence of her existence is considered anecdotal, with some photos also being called hoaxes.

The scientific community regards the Loch Ness monster as a phenomenon with no biological basis. They also asserted that Nessie’s appearance was just a hoax, wishful thinking, and the misidentification of worldly objects.

Geneticist Neil Gemmell of Otago University in New Zealand said a survey of environmental DNA taken from Loch Ness found no sign of the “monster” in question.

New Zealand researchers created a comprehensive record of all species living in Lake Ness by pulling DNA from lake water samples.

Loch Ness is also not home to the aquatic dinosaur Nessie, a theory used to explain a mysterious figure who has reportedly been seen several times since the 1930s.

Gemmell said DNA traces of more than 3,000 species living around or within Loch Ness including fish, deer, pigs, birds, humans and bacteria show no evidence of “monsters”.

“We didn’t find the giant reptile. We didn’t find the reptile at all,” Gemmell told Live Science.

“We tested various samples of giant sturgeons or catfish that may have been here from time to time, but we didn’t find that either.”

One thing the researchers found was that Loch Ness contains a lot of eels. In addition, the scientists added, the sighting of Nessie may be the sighting of an overgrown eel. Although this theory is very unlikely.

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