Recent Discovery Makes Loch Ness Monster More "Plausible"

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 According to an article in the telegraph "the Loch Ness Monster is “plausible”, after finding that some plesiosaurs may have lived in freshwater."

Nessie, a.k.a. the Loch Ness Monster is usually described as having a very long neck that sticks out of the water and is connected to a body similar to that of a sea turtle sans the shell. It has long been held that the monster is probably a prehistoric aquatic reptile such as a plesiosaur or elasmosaurus. 

Though most are skeptical of something surviving millions of years undetected, a new fossil discovery has shown that some plesiosaurs lived in freshwater.

A University of Bath team found the fossils of many plesiosaurs from one-hundred million years ago in what is now the Sahara Desert in Africa. Evidence suggests that they lived in freshwater alongside turtles, fish, and even crocodiles.

Though the findings make Nessie more plausible the chances of her actually existing are still quite slim, but the idea is fascinating!

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