Comments on: Arctic Sea Monsters

By: Raptorial

Raptorial — Sat, 14 Oct 2006 14:43:09 +0000

It kind of looks like the beast that I think the leviathan was. Kronosaurus and its relatives are really cool. Plesiosaurs and pliosaurs forever!

By: YourPTR!

YourPTR! — Thu, 12 Oct 2006 18:11:08 +0000

That image sure makes for an impressive sight and I really hope something like that could still exist somewhere in the oceans deep.

By: crypto_randz

crypto_randz — Wed, 11 Oct 2006 00:16:45 +0000

Nobody really knows whats at the bottom of Loch Ness. You believe what you want, but I’ve done my research on the loch, and there can be many conclusions to what it is. Loch Ness is dark and gloomy and it is very difficult to journey done there. I had an encounter many years ago on a lake in Maine and that’s when I started my research on lake dwellers, because strange wakes and strange waves come out of no where no apparent reason. Well I encountered something like that, and no that in a lot of lakes there are strange animals in those body of water.

By: shill

shill — Tue, 10 Oct 2006 16:16:35 +0000

There is a huge difference between what people actually see and what they later describe. The human brain can all to easily fill in the underwater space beneath a wave with a giant animal - the more prehistoric-looking, the better for a good story. That’s why I called it cultural. People commonly see what they want to believe as well as the other way round. For “sea dragons”, read any Richard Ellis book. He’s great. (BTW, no such thing as an “Elmasaurus”, it’s elasmosaurus, which is a type of plesiosaur.)

By: mystery_man

mystery_man — Mon, 09 Oct 2006 15:06:52 +0000

Or it could be a long, tapering eel or a long necked whale of some kind, or something other than a plesiosaur. A lot of theories floating around. Let’s not make the mistake of making it into what we want it to be. That it is huge is well documented. What exactly it is is not.

By: crypto_randz

crypto_randz — Mon, 09 Oct 2006 13:42:54 +0000

I say one thing whatever is making those humps and can cause huge washes and wakes got to be one hell of a huge animal, don’t rule out it being some sort of sea dragon. Dont also forget eyewitnesses keep describing this animal having a long tapering neck so what kind of animal has a long tapering neck feature that it being A PLESIOSAUR OR ELMASAURUS. There also long neck and short neck.

By: mystery_man

mystery_man — Mon, 09 Oct 2006 09:16:23 +0000

There is no real evidence that points to a plesiosaur in Loch Ness. Whatever is in there, if anything, could be a lot of different things. Maybe it is a plesiosaur, maybe not. It is too bad when journalists make these jumps and make statements like that. Not only do they claim what is in the Loch is a plesiosaur, but they say it is mythical, which although it may be true, is not wholly confirmed.

By: shill

shill — Sun, 08 Oct 2006 23:21:21 +0000

Agree with Caddo21, “perhaps a distant relative to Scotland’s mythical Loch Ness monster” is totally ridiculous, appears in every news story like this, and shows that journalists tend to just recycle and not think for themselves. How can one be a relative to a mythical animal? Hmm? Every fossil find like this is fantastic and the media dumbs it down for the public with a vague and meaningless reference to a cultural phenomena.

The Loch phenomena is more than cultural, it is also scientific, I think, because people see something, just know not what. But, the odds that it is a plesiosaur of any kind or its decendents are absurdly small and may as well be discounted as an explanation since there is not one iota of evidence to support such.

By: cor2879

cor2879 — Sun, 08 Oct 2006 19:35:37 +0000

Interesting and sad about the whale. I’ve always had a soft spot for the big guys!

On the plesiosaur news, very interesting indeed. I’m not one to say that the creature(s) in Loch Ness is a plesiosaur, however to say it can’t be because it would do this or it would be that, to me that’s the height of human hubris. The fact is we don’t know because few if any have ever observed a live plesiosaur. When you have, then you can tell me what they would or would not do, or where they might or might not be found.

By: Craig Woolheater

Craig Woolheater — Sun, 08 Oct 2006 14:42:44 +0000

Here is the link to the whale news.