The legend of the Loch Ness Monster continues. A study carried out by the team The Super Natural History, led by the professor of the University of Otago Neil Gemmell, has not been able to determine the nature of the mysterious creature that the legend locates in the Scottish lake.
After collecting up to 250 samples - at a maximum depth of 200 meters - over a year , The Super Natural History has not found remains of DNA of an unknown species, so it has not been able to offer an enlightening answer about The mythical creature. This was revealed by the professor this morning in a massive press conference at the Loch Ness Center (Drumnadrochit, Inverness).
The group led by Gemmell considers three options to explain the legend and the thousands of sightings of Nessie : that it is a rare appearance on the lake of a sturgeon, that we are facing a surviving specimen of European catfish - supposedly introduced by the human being , "although there is no evidence of DNA in the samples" - or that it could be a strange specimen of European eel that had been trapped in the Ness riverbed and in its namesake lake.
Gemmell, in his appearance before the media, has admitted that "there are no samples of any type of DNA" that can match the description of the reptile similar to the plesiosaur inside the lake, totally ruling out the idea that it could be a copy of This extinct Jurassic species, as commonly described and can be seen in souvenir shops throughout Scotland. The specialist has compared the samples obtained with the DNA corresponding to 300 species.
Gemmell has indicated that it is important the advancement of technology and the use that has been given to the method of analysis for this study, the sequencing of environmental DNA -vironmental DNA (eDNA) in English-, since it is able to determine the existence of the biodiversity of the environment through the remains, traces, that living beings leave in their existence, such as skin, scales or secretions, regardless of the time and moment in which they were generated and deposited. The samples have been collected at depths of 50, 100 and 200 meters, in order to locate all kinds of possible species in such a deep lake.
Nessie , as the fabulous animal is popularly known whose myth attracts hundreds of visitors from all over the world to Scottish lands every year, could have been a great "advertising idea" of the circus owner when he saw one of his elephants bathe in that lake .
That was at least the theory presented in 2006 by Neil Clark, paleontologist at the Hunterial Museum of the University of Glasgow (Scotland) in the Open University Geological Society Journal .
According to Clark, who spent two years investigating the legend woven around the famous monster, in 1933, the year in which Nessie was first seen in modern times, the circus businessman offered 20,000 pounds from then to whom he managed to capture that Animal for your London circus.
" Most of the (supposed) visions (of the monster) were produced in 1933 , when the A82 road that runs west of Loch Ness was completed," Clark then explained. Many of these images correspond to floating trunks or waves, but from 1933 there are witnesses who claim to have seen a gray-colored creature of an elephant with a long neck and a kind of hump.
Clark acknowledged, however, that his theory does not explain alleged previous appearances - the first dates of the seventh century - or later of the monster, so you will never really know everything that the waters of that lake hide. "I am sure, however, that it is not a prehistoric animal," he said.
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