what is it?

[anotheranon]

In my meanderings re: an old pet subject, the Loch Ness Monster, I found this picture (2nd one down) that the researcher claims could possibly be a monster carcass lying ~300ft down on the floor of the loch.

While I'm ready to admit that that lump looks very much like a felled plesiousaur, I am very skeptical - the researcher, Rines, may be accomplished and educated, but he has no background in biology, and no physical samples were taken. Besides, even my own limited knowledge tells me that submerged carcasses typically float to the surface.

Tempting though it would be to contemplate alternatives, I suspect that it's a conveniently shaped pile of mud or rotting wood pictured. Any chance to prove otherwise has been effectively blown by not grabbing it as soon as it was found.

Any thoughts from the more scientific of y'all out there?

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[anotheranon.livejournal.com]

I'd be interested to hear the legend of Loch Lomond (or, at any rate, Loch Not-Loch Ness). I think most of the modern "Nessie" fuss traces back to the 1930s at the earliest, anyway - people started seeing strange things when the woods around the lake were cleared to make a freeway.

[jlsjlsjls.livejournal.com]

As I recall, the legends about that other loch are older, but they make more sense because it was open to the sea ... can just imagine something developing out of part of a giant squid carcass washing up on shore. ***now wondering if that whole thing isn't in the sea serpent chapter in "Willy Ley's Exotic Zoology", which has a crummy index ... hmmmm***