How scientists debunked the Loch Ness Monster
Phil Edwards · Tuesday, April 21, 2015, 7:09 am.
Many people know that the most famous photograph of the Loch Ness Monster was a total hoax. The "creature" depicted in Robert Wilson's 1934 shot turned out to be nothing more than a toy submarine with a plastic head stuck on it.
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But for some reason, the legend has persisted over the decades - and, of course, one fake photograph doesn't prove there isn't a monster.
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So, more recently, a pair of scientists decided to take up the task of proving once and for all that the Loch Ness Monster can't possibly be real.
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In their book, Abominable Science!: Origins of the Yeti, Nessie, and Other Famous Cryptids, David Loxton and Donald R. Prothero offer a thorough debunking of a menagerie of mythological animals, from Nessie to Bigfoot. Prothero, a paleontologist and geologist, walked me through all the reasons that the Loch Ness Monster couldn't possibly exist.
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1) There hasn't been a single convincing sighting of "Nessie"
2) If Nessie were real, we'd find bones of its ancestors. We haven't.
3) Even if Nessie did exist, Loch Ness wouldn't be big enough to sustain it
4) Loch Ness is also too cold for a reptile to inhabit
5) Loch Ness was covered in ice until relatively recently
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