![]() In reality, the Loch Ness monster has multiple identities. So I think it reasonable to assume that whatever the reported phenomena of the Loch Ness monster is founded on, it is not based on glimpses of a prehistoric reptile. Also less than 1% of creatures in the reports are described as reptilian or scaly. Only about 20% of the reports mention a neck of any length, so it is not the monster's normal form. Biochemist (and Nessie investigator) Roy Mackal said in 1976 there were over 10,000 reports of the Loch Ness monster but gave no evidence to back this, and a table in his book Monsters of Loch Ness only contains 251 reports. Most reports of the Loch Ness monster don't feature long necks. The very first sightings of the Loch Ness monster were in 1930 and although there were more sightings in 1933, they started in April before King Kong was screened in Scotland. It's more likely that King Kong only influenced rather than created the modern Nessie. The fact that the plesiosaur image of Nessie arose in August 1933 casts doubt on Daniel Loxton and Donald Prothero's (2013) theory Nessie originated with the highly popular 1933 King Kong film with its portrayal of a man-eating, long-necked, swamp-dwelling reptile. One (but not the only one) popular image of the Loch Ness monster was born. He claimed it had a long neck which allowed a journalist five days later to suggest it was a plesiosaur, a type of long-necked marine reptile from the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods. Spicer just described it as a prehistoric reptile. Until then informed commentators assumed that if there was an animal in the loch, it was some sort of vagrant freshwater animal like a seal that had made its way from the Moray Firth. Yet it would only be in August of 1933 that witness George Spicer, who saw Nessie on land, first suggested that the creature was a reptile. The first eyewitness reports of a strange animal in the loch started in 1930. Nessie's modern genesis really started in April 1933. However, it was the notion of the Loch Ness monster as a prehistoric reptile that really captured the public's imagination in the 1930s. Each time, the person claimed the idea was original. ![]() For example, the idea that the Loch Ness monster was originally a swimming elephant from a visiting circus, resurfaced three times, in 1934, 19. Some theories have been reinvented independently, showing the ingenuity of each generation of Nessie inventors. Many early suggestions by foreign zoologists implied they thought the loch was saltwater, which explains suggestions of sunfishes, whales, sharks and rays. The people who came up with these theories were not necessarily that familiar with the loch. There have been over 85 theories of what the Loch Ness monster is, ranging from the prosaic ( wind slicks, reflections, plant debris and boat wakes) to the zoological implausible (anacondas, killer whales and the ocean sunfish) to the frankly bonkers (ghost dinosaurs).
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