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Drought Exposes Loch Ness Monster Bones

(SCOTLAND) A record-setting drought in Europe this year has caused the water level of Loch Ness to drop to its lowest ever, resulting in an incredible discovery: a complete skeleton of what scientists believe may be the famed Loch Ness monster.

The skeleton appears to be that of a 15- to 20-foot-long long-necked plesiosaur, a creature that lived in Scotland’s frigid, freshwater Loch Ness during the Late Triassic Period some 200 million years ago, when it was connected to the sea by a channel. Scientists are shocked and amazed these marvelous creatures appear to have survived as an isolated population in this deep water lake all this time.

Plesiosaurs were among the top predators in the ocean at the time, roaming the oceans alongside such dinosaurs as T-rex and velociraptors.