Well to get into Loch Ness it’s going to have to negotiate some Locks! But still undiscovered large marine animals, statistically, yes. For example seeI assume I am not alone in supposing that given the body of evidence, that there may well be a species of cryptid that is quite rare, of a large marine reptile-like animal that is quite capable of entering fresh water, and that accounts for so-called lake monsters occurring in multiple locations? Not so much a single Loch Ness Monster or Ogopogo etc, but a trans-atlantic species with an unknown range and an unknown depth, that is able to find its way in and out of bodies of fresh water that it periodically visits to feed. We must assume they don't breed in fresh water, or we may have detected their spawn.
As to sea serpents; some eels get pretty big, and so do some snakes.
I'm imagining a creature that can fly.Well to get into Loch Ness it’s going to have to negotiate some Locks!
Hmm... 6 miles to the sea, but there are a series of smaller streams and lakes all over the landscape leading to the sea. A catfish could do it, or an eel.Well to get into Loch Ness it’s going to have to negotiate some Locks! But still undiscovered large marine animals, statistically, yes.
Agreed but not really a large marine reptile then?Hmm... 6 miles to the sea, but there are a series of smaller streams and lakes all over the landscape leading to the sea. A catfish could do it, or an eel.
Well given we know nothing about the marine reptile in question... how can we really say? A crocodile could do it too, were it not for the nasty weather. IDK what plesiosaur cold resistance is like, but they could survive in the Atlantic so it can't have been too bad, assuming we are even dealing with a plesiosaur.Agreed but not really a large marine reptile then?
Whatever this is in #3.
I'm not saying there's no such thing as a weird creature resembling a plesioaurus on the loose, but I have to question the veracity of the article simply because it makes no sense to me that it's possible that Mr. Burge Brown had a career (professional or amateur) as a prospector of beach sand. I know that some sand is so coveted that it gets stolen (for real!) and then sold to luxury hotels to beautify their private beaches (alleged), but the vase majority of beaches that I know of are just smothered in sand. Do people really have to search for beach sand as a prospector does for gold? Pity the poor beach sand prospector, slogging into the coastal waters with his/her/their waders strapped on, gripping his/her/their prospecting pan in weathered hands, hoping against hope that today, yes today! he/she/they will at long last find the mother lode of beach sand!Found elsewhere, this clipping from 1980 describes a plesiosaur like creature sighted off Darwin, Australia by a local police officer. The sighting took place over a 20 minute duration close to where a similar creature had been reported 2 years earlier.
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I'm not saying there's no such thing as a weird creature resembling a plesioaurus on the loose, but I have to question the veracity of the article simply because it makes no sense to me that it's possible that Mr. Burge Brown had a career (professional or amateur) as a prospector of beach sand. I know that some sand is so coveted that it gets stolen (for real!) and then sold to luxury hotels to beautify their private beaches (alleged), but the vase majority of beaches that I know of are just smothered in sand. Do people really have to search for beach sand as a prospector does for gold? Pity the poor beach sand prospector, slogging into the coastal waters with his/her/their waders strapped on, gripping his/her/their prospecting pan in weathered hands, hoping against hope that today, yes today! he/she/they will at long last find the mother lode of beach sand!
This lockdown is really warping my brain.