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Morocco's Sahara fossils show 'monster' could have lived in Loch Ness


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University of Bath researchers said it was "plausible" that a plesiosaur could have survived in the Scottish loch.

 

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-62317648

 

The study was published in Cretaceous Research 

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Keep in mind that Loch Ness was carved due to glacial action in the end of the Eemian to the end of the Younger Dryas during the Last Glacial Period (LGP), ~0.115Mya - 0.0117Mya - long after the end of the Cretaceous! This paper was just to say that, in the scenario one did manage to get there, it could survive on the food, space etc etc! Not that it could have got there... :P

 

 

 

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More specifically, the paper showed that freshwater plesiosaurs existed!

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Clickbait. 

Nobody in their right minds really believes this is 'plausible'. 

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"fake news" "fake news" "fake news" simply quoting someone we know :P

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"Fossils of the prehistoric reptile were found in a 100 million-year-old river system in Morocco's Sahara Desert.

 

These suggest some species previously thought to be saltwater sea creatures, may have lived in freshwater systems.

 

University of Bath researchers said it was "plausible" that a plesiosaur could have survived in the Scottish loch.

 

But the team also points out that plesiosaurs died out along with the dinosaurs 66 million years ago."

 

Not necessarily clickbait, just poorly worded headlines both on this thread and the news post :P

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7 hours ago, Tidgy's Dad said:

 

:DOH:

 

Ah, the media.

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On 7/28/2022 at 6:19 AM, IsaacTheFossilMan said:

Keep in mind that Loch Ness was carved due to glacial action in the end of the Eemian to the end of the Younger Dryas during the Last Glacial Period (LGP), ~0.115Mya - 0.0117Mya - long after the end of the Cretaceous! This paper was just to say that, in the scenario one did manage to get there, it could survive on the food, space etc etc! Not that it could have got there... :P

 

 

 

The myth of the Loch Ness monster is irrelevant to the research paper describing freshwater plesiosaur remains from the mid-Cretaceous of Morocco. The legend of a monster lurking in the Loch Ness goes back to the 7th century biography by St. Adamnan of St. Columba, which mentions a story about St. Columba's men being attacked by a monster in the Loch Ness. The type of monster mentioned in the 7th century account of St. Columba is unclear, but the BBC headline about the research paper is largely in error because Loch Ness was formed tens of millions of years after the last plesiosaurs were wiped out during the K-T extinction. 

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12 hours ago, DD1991 said:

The myth of the Loch Ness monster is irrelevant to the research paper describing freshwater plesiosaur remains from the mid-Cretaceous of Morocco. The legend of a monster lurking in the Loch Ness goes back to the 7th century biography by St. Adamnan of St. Columba, which mentions a story about St. Columba's men being attacked by a monster in the Loch Ness. The type of monster mentioned in the 7th century account of St. Columba is unclear, but the BBC headline about the research paper is largely in error because Loch Ness was formed tens of millions of years after the last plesiosaurs were wiped out during the K-T extinction. 

 

Exactly, it's completely wrong.

 

Note that K-T stands for Cretaceous-Tertiary, but Tertiary is an obsolete term. K-Pg, for Palaeogene, is the modern term.

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