Comments on: Champ on CBS Early Show

By: sonofthedestroyer

sonofthedestroyer — Sun, 25 Dec 2011 07:55:28 +0000

That Olsen footage or whatever it is. Got me very excited when it was released couple of years ago. If it is not a hoax, its something amazing for sure. Problem is, it all went under the carpet.

By: boxerpit

boxerpit — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 07:55:02 +0000

i believe that it could be evolution that had made a salt water to fresh water animal.
adaptation has worked for millions of years so maybe that’s how.
i love cryptids and one day soon i believe that a lake monster sea serpent will be found to be real just remember this that kraken was once thought to be myth but we know now that the giant squid could be the kraken.

By: Jonathan Poulsen

Jonathan Poulsen — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 19:59:01 +0000

Just found the interview with Scott Mardis. The idea is that when lakes like Loch Ness and Lake Champlain were connected to the ocean and marine animals were able to come and go, plesoisaurs went into Loch Ness and Lake Champlain then after the Ice Age they were trapped inside of the lakes, but I wonder how they adapted from a marine animal to a fresh water animal.

By: Jonathan Poulsen

Jonathan Poulsen — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 19:37:37 +0000

We know that creatures like the Loch Ness Monster and Champ have existed in the past, Plesiosauria which lived from the Jurassic age to the Cretaceous period. I would not be impossible for these animals to go into lakes and other fresh water areas during the ice age, and just stay there even as of today.

By: DWA

DWA — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 18:54:40 +0000

Yeah, but I’ll wear my glasses next time.

By: Loren Coleman

Loren Coleman — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 16:00:34 +0000

Yes, DWA, I see you caught yourself. Half a century is 50 years. The time from 1609 until 2011 is, well, not 50 years.

I consider “one Champ” existing for 402 years being as valid a zoological speculation as thinking there being “one Bigfoot” having been sighted “since the pre-colonial days of the Indians” or “one white Yeti” causing all the reports of “Abominable Snowmen” since the ancient times of the “Sherpas.”

By: DWA

DWA — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 14:32:10 +0000

Whoops. Check that. It’s FOURTEEN years – the longest-lived caterpillar known. And it spends more than half that time fighting off freezer burn.

So, maybe Champ will still be there 500 years from now.

The smart money always has Ma Nature upping the ante.

By: DWA

DWA — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 14:30:07 +0000

Loren: I think that when one is proposing something as seemingly absurd as Champ, considering an unusual lifespan – among other aspects of an animal that, given what many think it is, seems a weetad misplaced in, er, Vermont – is not exactly open-minded to the point of voiding skull content.

The arctic wooly bear caterpillar freezes solid every winter. For seven years. Next to that, Champ going half a century per is pretty durn mundane.

By: Loren Coleman

Loren Coleman — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 09:19:23 +0000

I seriously do not consider it logical biological thinking to consider, DWA, that the same, single Champ animal has existed in this lake for 400 years!

David from Australia, it is not sexist to gender identify someone as “female” when you wish to clearly prepare a reading public for which of two people (a man and a woman who are talking) that you are writing about. There appeared to be very light humor attached to her semi-question.

By: David-Australia

David-Australia — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 02:21:45 +0000

Re the “female reporter” (a somewhat sexist reference?) – do you think perhaps she was merely attempting to be humorous, but with a straight face?