The true "Loch Ness monster" does not resemble the one we had in mind

One of the great mysteries not yet solved, or completely dismissed from "cryptozoology", has been that of the Loch Ness monster, more familiarly known as "Nessie", and whose history in popular culture dates back to the beginning of the second half of the nineteenth century, however, what could be considered the true monster of Loch Ness, would be much more ancient and fascinating.

The real monster of Loch Ness no It looks like the one we had in mind

In 1966 Norrie Gillies , director of the Storr Lochs power plant on the Isle of Skye (Scotland), discovered near the facilities a rock with what seemed to contain the fossil of a prehistoric fish , and that ended in the warehouses of the National Museums of Scotland, where he remained more or less ignored for more than 50 years.

The paleontologist at the University of Edinburgh, Steve Brusatte , explained that the fossil was half a century without touching, while acquiring the necessary experience to free it from the rock without spoiling it; I recently performed the conservative and restorative fossil Nigel Larkin .Brusatte and his colleagues at the National Museum of Scotland, Nick Fraser and Stig Walsh, identified the "fish" as a ichthyosaur .

The true

Ichthyosaur

We placed the fish in quotation marks because the ichthyosaurs were not really fish, but reptiles that made the same path as the ancestors of whales and dolphins, land animals that returned to the sea, but that needed to take air from time to time.The ichthyosaurs have an evolutionary history that goes back to the lower triasic , 245 million years ago, and they were owners of the seas of America, Europe and Asia until about 90 million years ago.years, when they were displaced by other species, such as the plesiosaurs.

The specimen found in Storr Lochs, which would become the most complete skeleton of this class found in Scotland, would have lived 170 million years ago, during the jurassic period, belonged to a species that could reach 4 meters long, it was such a carnivorous fast as tunas, and probably hunted in deep waters, like sperm whales today.

Brusatte comments: "People are obsessed with the myth of the Loch Ness monster that is totally false, but they don't realize that there were real sea monsters " that " were bigger, more fearsome and more fascinating than Nessie ".

Norrie Gillies died at 93, in 2011, without having contemplated what some paleontologists now call "the jewel in the crown of Scotland's prehistory," and without knowing that perhaps she found the true monster of Loch Ness, although I was not in Loch Ness (Storr Lochs would become an arm of the sea), nor was it a true m monster, but a natural part of the wonderful and even mysterious story of life on Earth.

If you want to know a little more about these issues, read the article about the 3 dinosaurs that lived with humans.

Images: Duncan McNeil, Sven Laqua

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