There is a plesiosaur in Loch Ness.
According to reports, the newly discovered fossil is four vertebrae of a dinosaur, which are gray, and the spinal tendons and blood vessels that have become limestone can be clearly seen on them. This dinosaur fossil was discovered by a 67-year-old British man, Gerald McSory, in a shallow water in Loch Ness.
On June 5438+05, scientists from the National Museum of Scotland confirmed that this is indeed a bone vertebra fossil of plesiosaur in Jurassic period, and it is the first ancient dinosaur fossil found on the shores of Nice Lake in England-it confirmed that plesiosaur, a 35-foot-long ancient marine killer, really lived in the Loch Ness area.
Loch Ness monster puzzles scientists.
Loch Ness is located in the Grand Canyon in the northern Scottish Plateau of England. It is 39 kilometers long and 2.4 kilometers wide. Although the area is small, the average depth is 200 meters. The earliest record of "Loch Ness Monster" can be traced back to 565 AD, when the Irish missionary St. Columbus and his servant were swimming in the lake, and the monster suddenly attacked his servant. Thanks to the timely help of the missionaries, the servant swam back to the shore and saved his life. Since then, 10 for more than a century, there have been more than 10,000 pieces of news about the appearance of water monsters. But many people used to think that this was just an ancient legend.
It was not until April 1934 that London doctor Wilson passed by Loch Ness and happened to find the water monster swimming in the lake. Wilson quickly took a picture of the monster with his camera. Although the picture is not very clear, it clearly shows the characteristics of the monster: long neck and flat head, which looks not like any aquatic animals today, but more like plesiosaur extinct more than 65 million years ago. This photo caused a worldwide sensation after it was published.
1960 In April, British aviation engineer Ding Side made a film of more than 50 feet in Loch Ness. Although the film is rough, it is still obvious that a giant creature with a long black neck swam across Loch Ness. Some scientists who were negative about it changed their views after watching the film.
Since 1970s, scientists have been searching for water monsters with the help of advanced instruments and equipment. Underwater cameras and sonar instruments show that there are indeed huge objects moving in the lake. Scientists also photographed a strange creature 6.5 meters long underwater. After computer magnification, you can see the short tentacles and wide mouth on the monster's head.
However, since the 1980s, when American and British scientists formed a large-scale joint expedition team and sent 24 research ships to form a long snake array to search Loch Ness, there was no trace of Loch Ness monster.
Britain rekindles the craze of "Loch Ness Monster"
However, the newly discovered plesiosaur fossils in Loch Ness once again aroused people's great interest in the Loch Ness monster. The discovery of new dinosaur fossils has made some Loch Ness monster fans more convinced that some ancient plesiosaurs must have escaped extinction and survived in Loch Ness more than 65 million years ago, and the Loch Ness monster that troubled the scientific community may be the direct descendant of the ancient plesiosaurs! (Ouyang)