Nessie = Dinomania?

[BlueKrono]

As someone who has studiously traced the inspiration for the Marx dinosaur set, I found this article interesting.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/scientists-might-know-idea-loch-ness-monster-really-came-190049072.html

[Gwangi]

The Books Abominable Science by Loxton and Prothero and Hunting Monsters by Darren Naish both touch on this a fair bit. Incidentally Spicer saw the monster in 1933, the same year that Kind Kong was released. King Kong with its depictions of prehistoric animals (including a long-necked aquatic reptile and semi-aquatic Brontosaurus) was just as popular in 1933 as Jurassic Park was in 1993. Coincidence? I think not.

[stargatedalek]

This probably explains the design of the famous hoax, but what about the descriptions predating it? None of them describe a plesiosaur of course, rather a nondescript large animal in the water.

I assume the reigning Greenland shark theory still holds there?

[Gwangi]

This probably explains the design of the famous hoax, but what about the descriptions predating it? None of them describe a plesiosaur of course, rather a nondescript large animal in the water.

I assume the reigning Greenland shark theory still holds there?

The usual; waves, boat wakes, native fishes, birds, maybe even seals. I've heard about the greenland shark theory (River Monsters) but I'm not buying it, seems far fetched to me. Really nothing extraordinary occurs in Loch Ness, it's the same stuff that happens in freshwater lakes around the world, there isn't anything biologically exciting there.