Comments on: Nessie is a Wels Catfish?

By: maslo63

maslo63 — Wed, 21 Nov 2012 22:59:44 +0000

Goodfoot; plesiosaurs and other extinct marine reptiles are not dinosaurs. Plesiosaurs specifically belong to an entirely separate group of extinct reptiles more closely related to modern lizards and snakes than dinosaurs. Still, an additional 65 million years of evolution does not require much change for an animal already adapted to its environment, there are many species alive today that have changed very little in several million years if not hundreds. Birds are dinosaurs that is correct but fully modern groups of birds lived alongside dinosaurs and they too have changed little.

If Nessie is anything it is an unusually large fish but more likely it is a combination of animals and environmental occurrence which basically means…it does not exist.

By: Goodfoot

Goodfoot — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 22:44:43 +0000

dconstrukt: The photo to which I think you refer has, to the best of my knowledge, never been definitively debunked. There do appear to be odd things about it. The one I recall is that the neck seems to be slightly transparent. Certainly hoaxed photos have been with us for a long, long time – almost as long as photography has existed. There seems to be no limit to the devious machinations of the human character.

gorilin (your name sounds like what would give gorillas their flavor): if lake monsters “evolved” from plesiosaurs, etc., shouldn’t we expect them to look less like plesiosaurs (etc.)? I mean, certain dinosaurs evolved and became birds; wouldn’t evolved marine dinosaurs now look less like their ancestors? I’m not disputing that lake monsters could be dinosaurs, just that they are modern dinosaurs evolved from: dinosaurs.

By: gorilin

gorilin — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 20:16:05 +0000

I still think that lake monsters are evolved plesiosaurs, ichthyosaurus, zeuglodons, and more…

By: dconstrukt

dconstrukt — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 14:28:57 +0000

i mean do we really have proof there is a loch ness monster?

i remember that one famous photo as being hoaxed.

the rhines flipper looking photo seemed a bit unusual, but you cant base your case off it alone.

the fish thing could in some way make sense… but i’d have to be a massive fish eh?

By: Sordes

Sordes — Mon, 19 Nov 2012 22:27:59 +0000

First of all, this species’ name is wels (what just means “catfish” in German), not Wales Catfish. They are NOT the largest freshwater of the world, they do not grow bigger than 3 m as many people think and they do especially not grow very large in cold water.

By: Goodfoot

Goodfoot — Mon, 19 Nov 2012 20:39:29 +0000

Sure thing. I heard they grow to be 60 feet long or more, and acquire long necks by playing ping-pong with their necks.