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The REAl Size Of The LOCH NESS MONSTER

September 13th 2007 10:01
Loch Ness Monster
Many people in Scotland and all over the world have been fascinated with the idea of the Loch Ness Monster and the possibility of it's existence.

It was calculated some time ago that If the Loch Ness monster truly exists, it could only be about as big as a 12 year old as there is only enough fish in the loch to feed a 31 kg (about 67 lb) creature.

Scientists used sonar to estimate the number of fish in the lake and came up with an annual food supply of 93 kg. Since a cold blooded animal like Nessie would need to eat about three times its body weight each year, it could only weigh about 31 kg.

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Comment by Anonymous

September 13th 2007 11:54
And what is that in lbs? Not many of us in America know the metric conversions.

Comment by James Rickard

September 13th 2007 21:54


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Comment by Michaelie

September 19th 2007 16:33


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September 24th 2007 11:24


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Comment by Anonymous

October 2nd 2007 15:44
what says nessie has to be a carnivore? The brontosaurus and diplodocus were herbivores, and they looked an awful lot like the artist's rendition given here.

Comment by jenna

October 17th 2007 19:38
yeah thats funny b/c they cant even find nessie with sonor so how do they know they are getting a right # of fish???

Comment by jenna

October 17th 2007 19:38
yeah thats funny b/c they cant even find nessie with sonor so how do they know they are getting a right # of fish???

Comment by Anonymous

October 23rd 2007 23:30
it was proven that if nessie does exsist that she is a herbovorie and so is champ from lake champlaine so she doesnot weigh 67 lbs

Comment by Ninjap00

November 14th 2007 00:55
lol im scottish. nessies cool

Comment by Anonymous

December 8th 2007 01:11
Yeah OK, and I believe in Santa. Lockness is bologny there is no such thing, grow up people.

Comment by Anonymous

January 13th 2008 02:06
Well, aparently the pic has been photoshopped. If it were a real picture the "monster" would have made ripples in the water which by looking at is calm. And also the lake looks pretty deep so i don't think the thing can walk on water.

Comment by Anonymous

January 14th 2008 01:07
isnt nessie supposed to be a myth to prevent people from polluting the lake? lol

Comment by Anonymous

January 14th 2008 01:07
isnt nessie supposed to be a myth to prevent people from polluting the lake? lol

Comment by Anonymous

February 8th 2008 15:40
hello what if the loch ness is a vegetarian? One of the largest dinosaurs was a plant eater.

Comment by Anonymous

February 19th 2008 19:53
nessie is a hoax if doesnt exist. so never mind what it eats and how much it can eat.
there is a chance of the loch ness monster existing in the past when st.colomba saw it back 1400years ago, but that would have been a plesiosaurus.

Comment by toeloopyaka tiffany

April 9th 2008 14:11
hello my name is tiffany im from the usa i live in texas and i think the loch ness onster is real have you seen the movie water horse its a great movie of the loch ness monster it is not exact but u can learn alot from it i know some dont believe but i do belive and i have no doubt in my mind it is fake. its very interesting but only time will tell about the monster one day the truth will be reveald- age 13

Comment by Monsterhunter123

May 5th 2008 21:04
That's a load of crap. Loch Ness is one of the biggest lakes in the world. I did the math, Loch Ness is over 700 ft. deep. And there are millions-Billions of fish in there. And also, FYI, scientists used sonar tests on the lake and detected a living creature larger than any known fresh-water animal. So, that pretty much kills your theory. Sorry I had to prove you wrong.
Better luck next time

Comment by Anonymous

August 4th 2008 01:05
This picture is a fake one. Though I may not be sure if the lochness monster is true, this certainly is not a real picture. It seems to be a floatie on a persons lake. I found the same picture but blown up @ Really Long Link .

Comment by Anonymous

August 4th 2008 01:11
Oh yeah the head in this picture is fake. You can see it in that link. I actually have recently heard of a theory of it being a swimming elephant. The trunk make the head and the actual elephants head makes the hump. It was also said that at that time there was a traveling elephant circus.

Comment by Anonymous

September 7th 2008 23:12
Most people say that if Nessie DOES exist (of course she does lol) that she is a plesiosaur, a prehistoric aqauatic dinosaur, and also a plesiosaur fossil has been found on the beaches of Loch Ness Lake. The elephant theory - WRONG. In 1934, Robert Wilson took a HUGELY famous picture of "Nessie". In 1994 he admitted it was a hoax - a toy submarine with a plastic head on top. From the person who took the photo - yeah - I think it is right.

Comment by Anonymous

February 2nd 2009 23:56
i don't think it is real first of all b/c i've seen that picture in a movie so it is not a real in the picture. also because it has to eat three times bigger than itself witch is defenitly not possible. third of all people say that it lives in a lake and that big of an animal cannot live in such a shallow thing or other wise you would see the head poking out all the time witch would make it real but therefore it is not real.

Comment by Anonymous

February 3rd 2009 00:04
a creature could never be that big so its not real!!!!!!!! also the backround of the picture is ssssoooooo fake

Comment by Anonymous

February 6th 2009 20:09
MORE SKIN!!!!!!

Comment by Anonymous

February 15th 2009 14:31
Actually to prove you alll wrong - It is a model of nessie in a small lake in the ground of the nessie visitors centre a few metres from the loch. It is a real setting and lake, but model nessie - i dont believe it exists either but I do like that elephant theory - although it is wrong. The movie waterhorse doesnt explain anything about it either.

Comment by Billy

March 3rd 2009 19:28
I think that the Loch Ness monster does exist but I always thought that it would be black because every other picture I've seen has been black. I believe that it's bigger but I'm not sure if it's a herbivore or not because there are various theories on this. I don't think that this picture is real. I agree that it's a model.

Comment by Anonymous

April 27th 2009 11:47
Monster Hunter - Just because the lake is large, it doesn't mean that it has 'billions' of fish. The population of the lake would depend on many factors, such as the oxygenation levels of the body of water, light aborbance and biotic factors such as competition for food and shelter. So it really isn't as simple as 'oh it's a massive body of water, it must have a lot of fish'

Comment by MiSsYMichelle

May 20th 2009 21:31
Well,
it could still exist because scientists only calculated that it could eat up to 3 times its own weight.
what if it doesnt eat fish?
ro even if it did... they don't know how much it eats anyway.

like th ehumpback whale, it may eat plankton or krill or somethink small like that

it doesnt nessacrarily have to go along with scientists ideas.

they just dont want extra investigation work

Comment by youknowi

August 16th 2009 04:33
Trust me, there is a loch ness monster.. Yes, scientists HAVE done sonar scans and they have NOT detected an animal of that size, but it has been proven that the loch ness is so deep (plus it has many caves) that nessie (or if there is more than one which i think would be) would easily hide in the caves really far down the loch. But i agree that the picture above is just a model. Plus people, just because you havn't seen it, it dosn't mean it's not there... go with your heart, not always your head.- age 13

Comment by Anonymous

September 19th 2009 21:06
it is about 67 lbs

Comment by Anonymous

September 22nd 2009 20:25
hello the animal can also eat plants

Comment by Anonymous

September 22nd 2009 20:27
hello it can also eat plants.

Comment by Anonymous

November 25th 2009 14:47
[COLOR=Lime]The loch Ness Monster, or "Nessie" is obviously NOT real!!!!!!!!!!

Comment by Anonymous

December 29th 2009 20:54
I think Nessie is just an elephant swimming and getting air and that that picture is fake.
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Comment by Anonymous

January 4th 2010 18:03
Here , Im scottish and just so everybody knows the picture is just a model in a pond ive been there so it just floats there not making ripples.

its not an elephant if it was it would have felt uncomfortable and emerged from under water and if it was an elephat there would be coonstant sightings aas it would need to breath and what are the chances of an amphibian elephant plewase tell me?
I think the monster is reaal there are many caves the loch is oone of the deepest ones on earth so sonar wont reach the bottom plus it is connected to another source of water so it could hide there and feed there whenever it wants to.

Comment by Anonymous

February 2nd 2010 10:14
Nessie is REAL!!! I saw that monster our jar..

Comment by Anonymous

February 2nd 2010 10:18
I believe Nessie is real. I'm a Scottish too. I and my brother went to loch ness one day to have a picnic. I used to ride that monster there. It's so cool.

Comment by Anonymous

February 6th 2010 21:29
the loch ness was real more than 100 years ago.I'm from Mexico there is no bi g animals in Mexico.the loch ness is about 30 feet tall & 30-40 ft long.the loch ness is really wild it could it a whole person alive.why did they wanted to kill the loch ness he was not bad he did not kill people.
if you made him mad he would kill you.their is animals that they just want to play with others.they seem wild but their not animals for me look wild but their not they want to play.but steal my favorite animals are dogs a doberman,snake and a lion they are wild.writing a paragraph takes you up to 20 minutes.ok my name is Victor Davila i live in California i go to spruce elementary school time:1:28

Comment by Anonymous

March 1st 2010 16:07
Nessy is a very interesting thing to think about and I'm not sure whether or not it exists. There have been lots of serious scientific study over many years and the conclusion seems to be that there most likely is something unexplained in the loch, exactly what that is no one has proven in a reliable way.
Regarding the discussion about whether Nessy is a herbavore or carnivore and the quantity of fish that exist in the lake I think that in either case it would require an animal to feed in rather shallow water on a fairly regular basis; aquatic plant life needs sunlight and even in very clear water there is still a limit to how deep adequate plant life can grow to nourish a very large animal. Most fish that would be fed on by Nessy would also tend to congregate in areas of vegitation because that vegitation provides oxygen, cover, and food - so this would suggest that Nessy should be seen a lot more frequently, both by local people and especially by those specifically looking for it.

Gary in the US

Comment by Anonymous

March 21st 2010 19:17
dude when was the last time Nessie was spotted in the 1900's and the sonar isn't as high tech as it is today
Duh!

Comment by Anonymous

March 21st 2010 19:18
but can still be real!

Comment by Anonymous

March 23rd 2010 23:44
]yeah this hellped me w/ my report on Nessie

Comment by ted

July 14th 2010 01:12
to all of you, you're almost entirely wrong. about the photo, some of you said it was fake. HOW DID YOU FIGURE THAT OUT????!!!!! (that was sarcasm# What gave it away to you? the fact that the animal was 90% out of the water, when most water based substances float roughly 60%-95% under the water? the fact that there were no ripples? the fact that if this was a real picture, the whole thing would be un-important, becuase "nessie's" existance would be proven?!

so now that we understand that the picture is fake #which has nothing really to do wiht the article# i will move on to the bulk of my argument. nessie doesn't exist. nessie is twelve #we know that from the reported amount of fish that it can consume #plesiosaurs are carniverous## therefore the animal most of had two #and in remote cases one# parent, as all animals at this point in time. suposing that the animal photoed in the famous picture was a plesiosuar, and not an eliphant #regarding the person who said that the eliphant theory was fake, becuase the eliphant would have emerged, for air, and thus be sighted. well you have been mislead by the main stream media who misworded it to sound as though nessie and the eliphant were on in the same. i beleave that the media ment to say that the animal in the photo could have been an eliphant, which either was let out into the water and photographed, and then got out of the water. the eliphant isn't aquatic.# the animal must have died roughly twelve years ago, becuase two large monsters would have easily killed of the population of fish. now what happens to dead bodies? yes they float. so when the pleasiasuars die, they must float upwards and be discovered.

lastly plesiosuars, have no abilty to lift up there necks into the position shown in the famous eliphant photo. without a large tail for counter weight the neck would have pullled the animal under the water, so that the head was barly out of the water, and the tail as well.
palentoligests sugest that brotosuars had trouble keeping there heads up high, blood flow would have been nearly impossable if the neck remained verticle for to long. the brontosuars probably ate of of the lower branches of trees. why might the brontosuarus have the long neck you ask?
becuase it was nessisary counterbalence which was nessisary with the long tail, which was probably for defensive purposes. it all comes down to the fact that the plesiosuar isn't what is in that photo. I also doubt that it is what is in that lake #there probably is nothing#.

Comment by Anonymous

July 27th 2010 07:11
This Pictrue is fake! if it were real there would be more movments in the water. its very still and i think its made of plastic, realistic plastic. If you did get to go that close to a monster like this you would probably be dead.

Comment by Anonymous

July 27th 2010 12:09
hey im Scottish and i DO belive in nessie, just coz "scientists" may not be able to prove it, it dosnt mean its fake. i dont think that pic is real though but there is some awsome pics showing ripples in the water and humps aswell. My granny saw it when she was a wee girl, i didnt really think she was being serious at first but all my family backed it up nd know i really think shes teling the truth. byeeee

Comment by Anonymous

August 26th 2010 13:33
The loch ness monster just might be real but the picture is definitely a fake. It looks more like a brachiosaurs then a plesiosaurs. Besides the feet aren't go for paddling so nessie will sink to the bottom of the kake.

Comment by Anonymous

August 26th 2010 13:33
The loch ness monster just might be real but the picture is definitely a fake. It looks more like a brachiosaurs then a plesiosaurs. Besides the feet aren't go for paddling so nessie will sink to the bottom of the kake.

Comment by Anonymous

August 26th 2010 13:33
The loch ness monster just might be real but the picture is definitely a fake. It looks more like a brachiosaurs then a plesiosaurs. Besides the feet aren't go for paddling so nessie will sink to the bottom of the kake.

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