Sea Monsters...Is it Real?

marzz92Haha, never that, we are talking about sea monsters here right?

Yep,maybe I should make it general..

Nessie - elephant.
Bigfoot - Bear

There may be a slight chance that some dinosaurs survived the extinction don't ya think, in this case, loch ness was a aquatic dino

Here's some misindentification of this monster..Common animalsBird wakesThere are wake sightings that occur when the loch is dead calm with no boat nearby. A bartender named David Munro claims to have witnessed a wake which he believed to be a creature zigzagging, diving and reappearing. (There were 26 other witnesses from a nearby car park.)Some sightings describe the onset of a V-shaped wake, as if there were something underwater.Moreover, many wake sightings describe something not conforming to the shape of a boat.Under dead calm conditions, a creature too small to be visible to the naked eye can leave a clear v-shaped wake. In particular, a group of swimming birds can give a wake and the appearance of an object. A group of birds can leave the water and then land again, giving a sequence of wakes like an object breaking the surface, which Dick Raynor says is a possible explanation for his film.EelA giant eel was actually one of the first suggestions made.Eels are found in Loch Ness, and an unusually large eel would fit many sightings. This has been described as a conservative explanation. Eels are not known to protrude swanlike from the water and thus would not account for the head and neck sightings. Dinsdale dismissed the proposal because eels move in a side-to-side undulation.On May 2, 2001: Two conger eels were found on the shore of the loch, but since conger eels are saltwater animals and Loch Ness is a freshwater body of water, it is believed that they were put there to be seen as "Mini-Nessies".ElephantIn a 1979 article, California biologist Dennis Power and geographer Donald Johnson claimed that the Surgeon's Photograph was in fact the top of the head, extended trunk and flared nostrils of a swimming elephant, probably photographed elsewhere and claimed to be from Loch Ness.In 2006, palaeontologist and artist Neil Clark similarly suggested that travelling circuses might have allowed elephants to refresh themselves in the loch and that the trunk could therefore be the head and neck, with the elephant's head and back providing the humps. In support of this he provided a painting.Resident animalsWhen viewed through a telescope or binoculars with no outside reference, it is difficult to judge the size of an object in the water. Loch Ness has resident otters and pictures of them are given by Binns,which could be misinterpreted. Likewise he gives pictures of deer swimming in Loch Ness, and birds which could be taken as a "head and neck" sighting.SealsA number of photographs and a video have now been taken which confirm that seals have been present in the loch, for up to months at a time.In 1934 the Sir Edward Mountain expedition analysed film taken the same year and concluded that the monster was a species of seal, which was reported in a national newspaper as "Loch Ness Riddle Solved - Official".A long-necked seal was advocated by Peter Costello for Nessie and for other reputed lake monsters.R.T. Gould wrote "A grey seal has a long and surprisingly extensible neck; it swims with a paddling action; its colour fits the bill; and there is nothing surprising in its being seen on the shore of the loch, or crossing a road."This explanation would cover sightings of lake monsters on land, during which the creature supposedly waddled into the lake upon being startled, in the manner of seals.Seals could also account for sonar traces which act as animate objects. Against this, it has been argued that all known species of pinnipeds are usually visible on land during daylight hours to sunbathe,something that Nessie is not known to do. However seals have been observed and photographed in Loch Ness and the sightings are sufficiently infrequent to allow for occasional visiting animals rather than a permanent colony.again from...http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loch_Ness_Monster

marzz92 · #23There may be a slight chance that some dinosaurs survived the extinction don't ya think, in this case, loch ness was a aquatic dino

i think if some dinosaur survive, people would have found it by now.anyway IIRC there is a movie make back then.... it think its call The Water Horse (very similar to storyline Doraemon: Nobita's Dinosaur back then)

Replying to #25

at least They found the prehistoric fish..

Don't forget cockroaches as well, they survived for along time since the dino ages

Can you imagine a gigantic reptile survive through time till now compared to those puny organisms you mentioned???

Replying to #28

Well,even elephant scared to mouse..

Replying to #29

That's not true at all....It was just popularized by cartoons and media...

Maybe small creature can live well in extreme climate than big creature..

meganova · #26at least They found the prehistoric fish..

look like Triops to me, Triops isnt prehistoric.

marzz92 · #27Don't forget cockroaches as well, they survived for along time since the dino ages

roaches and most insect survive the K-T event, btw i'm still wondering what really cause the K-T event......

Blade5406 · #30That's not true at all....

mythbuster said its possible. watch it here -> Mythbusters: Are elephants afraid of mice?

It was forced a bit....and I read some of the comments...Though it is really possible...

Here's another myth about sea monsters..KrakenKraken (pronounced /ˈkreɪkən/ or /ˈkrɑːkən/)are legendary sea monsters of gargantuan size, said to have dwelt off the coasts of Norway and Iceland. The sheer size and fearsome appearance attributed to the beasts have made them common ocean-dwelling monsters in various fictional works (see Kraken in popular culture). The legend may actually have originated from sightings of real giant squid that are variously estimated to grow to 13–15 metres (40–50 feet) in length, including the tentacles. These creatures normally live at great depths, but have been sighted at the surface and reportedly have "attacked" ships.Kraken is the definite article form of krake, a Scandinavian word designating an unhealthy animal, or something twisted.In modern German, Krake (plural and declined singular: Kraken) means octopus, but can also refer to the legendary Kraken.

How is the colossal squid different from the giant squid???

maybe they use different terms...but the meaning is still the same..
Colossal squid = giant squid = kraken?

I read from Reader's Digest that the two animals reside in different areas....Colossal(Asia) and Giant Squid(West)

Kraken just a legend, you know like Mermaid and stuff...... btw IIRC a giant squid was capture on new zeland, its 10 m long and weight 495 kg, but i doubt that giant squid capable of destorying ship.

So what about the colossal squid,...they say it's larger than the giant squid?They each have their own scientific names...:Colossal Squid (Mesonychoteuthis hamiltoni) and Giant Squid (Architeuthis dux).

IIRC colossal mean giant, so basically they are the same.