There's another reason everyone's talking about the discovery: 20 to 30 years ago, some people claimed the Loch Ness monster was a surviving plesiosaur, Longrich said. Rumors about the Loch Ness ...

Some people believe that the mythical Loch Ness Monster is a plesiosaur, a reptile with a small head and a long neck that became extinct some 65.5 million years ago.

There is almost definitely not a Loch Ness monster, but the real plesiosaurs found in fossils have captured our hearts for centuries. Even 66 million years after the last ones went extinct, ...

Discovery fuels Loch Ness Monster believers 03:35. The plesiosaur — an aquatic dinosaur once thought to exclusively reside in saltwater — is now believed to have spent much of its time in ...

For centuries, the Loch Ness monster has been the subject of folklore, sightings, and squabbles between believers and skeptics. Not to mention more than a few movies, including Nessie & Me (now ...

He also said Loch Ness, where the monster was supposedly spotted, measures about 20 square miles. It's much too small to support a plesiosaur, and though there are lakes that support marine ...

The mythical Loch Ness monster may, in fact, be real. Fossils of plesiosaurs were found in the Morocco portion of the Sahara Desert. Inspiration for the monster is said to have come after the ...

New fossils uncovered in the Sahara Desert show that the plesiosaur, a dinosaur-era sea beast often pegged to be the Loch Ness monster, was able to live in freshwater.

A new and sophisticated search is being planned for the elusive Loch Ness monster, the first major hunt for the fabled "Nessie" in 50 years.. Scotland's Loch Ness Centre in Drumnadrochit, Scotland ...

British scientists say the recent discovery of a plesiosaur fossil in a freshwater river system shows the existence of lake-dwelling Loch Ness monster-type creature was "plausible." ...

Existence of a Loch Ness Monster 'Plausible ... Scientists — and eager cryptozoologists — still have not yet found direct evidence that a plesiosaur or plesiosaur-like creature lived in Loch Ness.

Nessie, the legendary monster of Loch Ness, still isn’t “plausible,” even after fossils indicated ancient reptiles called plesiosaurs could live in freshwater. Skip Navigation.