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Wednesday, June 11, 2014

NESSIENEWS (Caveat Lector)


Whisky, Kilts, and the Loch Ness Monster
Whisky, Kilts, and the Loch Ness Monster is a memoir of a twenty-first-century literary pilgrimage to retrace the famous eighteenth-century Scottis...

The Mysterious "Footprints" of Loch Ness
The author of the article bearing the image was the well known Robert Rines and he had been discussing his own quest for Loch Ness Monster bones 

Open Minds UFO News
The mysterious animals of cryptozoology examined
It is, however, in 1933, that the monster made its newspaper headline debut. Mr. and Mrs. Mckay were driving along the northern shore of Loch Ness ...

3 comments:

Dustin Munro said...

Loch Ness Visiting Monsters

The “Loch Ness Monster”sightings are probably of different creatures that are out of place and only visit the lake but actually live in the Atlantic Ocean.Seals have been confirmed on occasions in the lake and known to enter freshwater.Other sightings are probably sturgeon and eels which also live in the ocean and do travel into rivers and lakes too.Deer sometimes swim too and if they don’t have the antlers,can look like a lake monster.Those are all known species that can be mistaken for unknown or thought to be extinct creatures when in a lake resembling a plesiosaur with only part of the body showing above the surface of the water.If any sightings are indeed one or more Plesiosaurs,it would definitely be a visitor species that lives in the oceans and breeds in the tropics and migrates to colder climates like sea turtles do.However,there is another thought to be extinct species from a much more recent time that is far more likely to be a loch ness visiting monster than a Plesiosaur and was a new fossil species found in Ethiopia and had similar or the same species in the Mediterranean Sea.That would be the “Bear Otter”that is estimated to have been between 7 - 10 feet long and weighed 200-400lbs and was probably the largest mustelid ever to exist.
Here are some sites about the creature which is probably the same or similar on seen in Ireland,Japan,and other lakes around the world.

Dustin Munro said...

Loch Ness Visiting Monsters
The “Loch Ness Monster”sightings are probably of different creatures that are out of place and only visit the lake but actually live in the Atlantic Ocean.Seals have been confirmed on occasions in the lake and known to enter freshwater.Other sightings are probably sturgeon and eels which also live in the ocean and do travel into rivers and lakes too.Deer sometimes swim too and if they don’t have the antlers,can look like a lake monster.Those are all known species that can be mistaken for unknown or thought to be extinct creatures when in a lake resembling a plesiosaur with only part of the body showing above the surface of the water.If any sightings are indeed one or more Plesiosaurs,it would definitely be a visitor species that lives in the oceans and breeds in the tropics and migrates to colder climates like sea turtles do.However,there is another thought to be extinct species from a much more recent time that is far more likely to be a loch ness visiting monster than a Plesiosaur and was a new fossil species found in Ethiopia and had similar or the same species in the Mediterranean Sea.That would be the “Bear Otter”that is estimated to have been between 7 - 10 feet long and weighed 200-400lbs and was probably the largest mustelid ever to exist.
Here are some sites about the creature which is probably the same or similar on seen in Ireland,Japan,and other lakes around the world.

Dustin Munro said...

TTFG: Enhydriodon by Eco727 on deviantART
eco727.deviantart.com/art/TTFG-Enhydriodon-253949587
Aug 19, 2011 - Enhydriodon dikikae “The Tooth of the Water” Size: 7-10 feet long, 200-400 pounds Diet: An adaptable creature, this massive mustelid feeds ...

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e-Update No 19 July 2012 - The International Otter Survival ...
www.otter.org/images/adminPDFs/90.pdf
Jul 19, 2012 - already ordering more, now including children's sizes, as ... an article appeared in Nature about the giant “Bear Otter” (Enhydriodon dikikae).
Early humans fingered in large-carnivore extinctions
www.archaeologyfieldwork.com/.../early-humans-fingered-in-large-carniv...
Apr 26, 2012 - The demise of the gigantic 'bear otter' (Enhydriodon dikikae) was part of a broader decline in large-carnivore diversity in Africa, which ...