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- At a press conference on the shores of Loch Ness, Scotland, DNA scientist Neil Gemmel announced the results of his year-long analysis of what creatures lurk beneath the mysterious seas. NBC’s Kelly Cobiella reports for TODAY.
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Loch Ness Monster Could Be A Giant Eel, Scientist Says | TODAY
A giant eel that disguises itself as a catfish...
Sneaky
Clever girl
@@teezy3535 Did you just assume it's gender?
So what you’re saying is..... everyone got catfished
@@pchurch4973 OMG
@@pchurch4973 I'm dieng 🤣😭🤣😭😭🤣😂
He became friends with the monster, and now trying to throw us off to keep nessy safe.
Friends with the monster that is under his bed?
P & F reference? :P
It's obvious. Clearly they're tracking Gyrados.
So a Magikarp was just chilling in the lake doing it's famous splash attack when it evolved into an over sized Gyrados? Sounds legit
A shiny gyarados
Legit
Shoosh its last of its kind.
Pokémon 4-ever!!
If the eel is +20ft then I'm not even mad since that is technically still a lake monster. I sure wouldnt want a great white shark sized eel creepin up to me while swimming.
Loch Ness isn't someplace you want to go swimming unless you want to die from hypothermia. That water is very very cold, and that lake is insanely deep. I was there back in 98, in August, the height of summer. Put my hand in the water and pulled it out quick. Felt like I stuck my hand in ice water.
GrayFatty lol some great whites are 20 ft. Very rare but some are. I sound like a turd but I’m just saying
Ugh i don't want another fake myth bros
Why are you sleeping in a lake?
Freshwater sturgeon can get over 20ft also, just saying. Sadly you don't see them that big very often, if ever, these days. It's a fact that they can still get that big though as long as they arent overfished. Not saying sturgeon are in loch ness, just that there are actual lake fish that can get 20ft. So to hear of a 20ft eel in a lake wouldnt really be that strange. The largest beluga sturgeon ever recorded was 24ft long and 3463lbs..... Basically the size of a great white shark....
I need about tree fiddy.
LoL
Lmao
🤣🤣
Dammitwoman!!
Why do give him money??
my Nugz he tricked meh
One thing to note is that there were no seal DNA found in the water, but seals routinely stay in the Loch for months at a time before migrating out.
Why not just send a submarine down there for a while
Eric Guo IKR
they did
Its too murky and muddy when you start going deep
@@Supershamwow02 are you someone that has learned a lot about water condition and stuff? Or is this just an idea/opinion? With the tech we have. We should be able to find it.
Canadian Guitarist, that’s not how that works. The water is wayyy too muddy.
Why isn't my boy Bigfoot getting any clout?
Because they probably don't believe. Go watch some Bob Gymlan videos, that ought to cheer you up. His stuff is scarily scientific, and frighteningly plausible.
Also, what happened to Chupacabras?
miguel cervantes ikr
Or my dad?
Big up my boy big foot!
Sounds a lot like something Nessie would WANT you to think...
The conspiracy continues...
Actually I know exactly what the monster wants.
@@abigailsaoirsefinnegan what?
@@fartmymouth about tree fiddy
I guess we're going to ignore that the original photographer admitted on his death bed that it was faked.
TheNajSD original photo? Buddy tales of the creature date back further than cameras.
Your not a very bright person
But there are a lot of OTHER reports, going back generations...
@@dustinparker3573 Tales also include dragons, werewolves, and vampires. Sooo...
@@mercinmadzootedg You're*
Omg is that the Loch Ness Monster? Let me take out my 1999 Nokia phone to record this!
@Lind L Tailor Damm bro, didn't know that, lemme pull out my Iphone instead bro
Ain’t buying it that’s far fetched ...it’s defiantly an alien hybrid from zeta reticuli
Wtf? 😂
Aliens don't swim in space
Massa they are hybrid offspring of Michael Phelps so I find that extremely hard to believe
@@rickyrick5586
Do you believe Michael Phelps trans wife was one of em??
Massa all trans and gays come from planet abominatia
There is a monster in Loch Ness. It's an old movie prop from a Sherlock Holmes movie (The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, 1970) that sank during filming on the Loch, and has been preserved perfectly on the bottom. It was rediscovered by a search team looking for the real Loch Ness monster using a deep-water scan.
The Loch Ness monster most probably IS an abnormally large eel. Just like many other so called lake monsters.
Not the case to me, some reports describe the back of an animal resembling an overturned boat, eels aren't like that, they constantly move. Another thing, is that an eel of that size is carnivorous and wouldn't pass up an opportunity to attack a human, which the mystery animal of Loch Ness isn't said to do.
The eel DNA was just a big coincidence, the eels themselves are a food source to some other denizen of the loch. The reason why they've not found any unusual DNA, is because DNA doesn't last long. The mystery animals had left the loch long before they mounted the expedition, so any traces of DNA evidence has been degraded due to the certain conditions in the loch.
@@TheKaijuGamer_ The eels don't move constantly, they often rest at the bottom. And these are unusually and abnorm large eels. eDNA normally lasts 2 weeks, but why would your animals leave the lake just prior to the sampling? No new DNA will never turn up in the lake. Sorry.
@@Starkodder1963
That's at the bottom of the loch, not the surface. Some eyewitnesses see a whalelike animal with a solid body laying stationary at the surface of the loch, then submerging like a submarine.
Also, they stated that the loch couldn't support large animals, so it isn't an abnormally large eel, the only eels known there are European Eels, which are 3.5 feet.
And yes, you can find DNA traces, you just need to be there at the right time of year, right time of day. And yes, DNA doesn't last long, if it is conditions like Loch Ness, they don't last any longer than a week, some DNA fragments are very fragile if you didn't know. I will, however, keep the eel explanation in mind, given that I don't have any evidence myself to back up the eyewitness testimonies of a whalelike animal, however, even Roy Mackal has seen the animal, and believes it be some species of cetacean like a Zeuglodon. And just like me, you have no evidence yourself to back up the eel claims.
@@TheKaijuGamer_ It is an abnormal eel. Shapeshifter like it is. There are many old testimonials in Scandinavia which describes them like the horseel with a mane on its back but calls them lindorm, drake or the like. We have the Storsjöodjur also. You can dream on.
karlshuker.blogspot.com/2015/03/bothersome-beithirs-and-other.html
@@Starkodder1963
The Storjöodjur and the others you've mentioned aren't even eels. The Storjöodjur is believed to be some form of pike or unusual otter. The Lindworm is some sort of reptile or annelid.
"You can dream on", says the one who only comes up with the "eel" as the only explanation for every other Lake Monster legend, when some are reptiles, mammals, birds, amphibians and some are big hoaxes. You literally don't see the whole picture of reality.
Whatever the creature is, it is clearly catfishing humans.
Good pun you deserve a clap 👏👏
Millions of believers on a still existing long "plesiosaur" that lived through the KT extinction and lived a total of 66 million years...This dude 🤣
Jesus Joseph no but people think the original one reproduced, the original Nessie probably died centuries ago if it did exist
"Let's get down to it. Will tourism lose an icon? Yes."
Joshua B if people want to see a real monster just look at the person in the White House.
@@thatminimalistguy1755 lol you mean hillary.
@@tylerm7300 look at the person in the hillary?
Maybe Nessie just enjoys eating eels?
Actually, I think it is a plesiosaurus and the eels are its food source
Saw a giant eel in the bay at Scarborough 1985. I haven't been over my knees in the sea since that day. It was at least 20 to 25ft long & a girth of about 18 to 24 inches. Saw a giant pike leap in lough Muck Ireland back in 82 too. The splash was as if a tall fat man had fallen into the water from a height. Wouldn't catch me swimming in a lake either.
Wow amazing story. Very intrigued . Surprised this this great comment hasn’t got more likes . You say this eel was 20-25ft long? We’re and how far was this giant Eel you saw? And how big would you say this huge pike was? Awesome if i could get a reply :)
@@talkingtom96 The eel was in Scarborough harbour, east coast of England, north sea. The pike I'd say was one of the last of the Irish pike. Around six feet in length. Co Tyrone in the north.
It's an eel. For years I believed it to be an 'unknown' even believing in the Plesiosaur idea until I kept an eel (saltwater) as a pet. The way it swims, the undulating motion, when it's hungry it tends to swim on the surface... the characteristics reminded me of the Loch Ness monster. A quick Google resulted in this 'Scientists say...' and I believe there's also an article where they found eel DNA. If you could have giant octopuses and other mammoth-sized water dwellers, why not an eel.
It can still be the monster there are different kinds of plesiosaurs fresh and salt and apparently they found a unknown long neck creature in the bottom of a cave
They said there wasn't enough food to support big creatures, now they're saying its a "giant" eel.
Scientists just want to prove that everything is false other than what they say, but when discoveries are made about certain things they said are false, they keep silence like sloths.
That 20% DNA that they can't identify...
@Bad Cattitude for real?
@@NoahEB Nope. We never had that many black slaves on British soil.
We shipped them abroad so that centuries later when everyone is hating those countries for that slavery we could sit back say it wasn't us, we abolished it.
@Bad Cattitude eh what..?
As a Scotsman I can have a say on this. It’s like what’s under a Scotsman’s kilt dark and not often seen. But when it comes out it stands tall like a beckon of light from a light house for all to see then goes back into the darkness to rest.
I swam in Loch Ness as a kid. We met the National Geographic team that was looking back in the early 70’s. It’s all been a load of crap. I live on the shores of Lake Champlain in Vermont now. We have Champ the mascot for the local minor league baseball team. The kids love the Champlain Monster.
Hm. Interesting that you were in both places. Any proof that you aren't involved?
Seems scientists can’t quite....LOCH...onto a solid answer
h e
🌽
And the photographers can't seem to...LOCH...their focus on the animal to get a solid picture.
It's pronunced like LOHH
I see Carson Daly found another place to sit, do nothing, and get paid for it.
If the loch ness monster WAS a eel it would be more dangerous cuz it's big= more electricity = more pain
Not all eels are electric
@@Jerimeme true
Steve Alton, who wrote MEG, made it out as a 20 foot eel, in his book THE LOCH. His explanations made perfect sense.
I once spent a fine summers day sitting on the eastern shore of Loch Ness. Suddenly a space ship landed nearby and out came this small guy with a bald head and huge eyes. I shared my sandwiches with him and we had a great time. He asked me if I believed in the Loch Ness. I had to confess that I did not. He agreed with me, and said it is probably a load of nonsense.
If there was a Loch Ness Monster it would have been dead by now.
So where did he get the plesiosaur DNA to rule it out? And who's to say that plesiosaur DNA isn't identical to eel DNA?
Mike Collins it doesn't work that way
Because a eel and a plesiosaur are two different animals. Like how humans cant produce a child with a monkey or an ape we are too different.
My Great uncle worked as a policeman in the Scottish Highlands back in the 1970s and he was driving past Loch Ness in his police car with one of his colleagues sat next to him and they swore they saw something in the Loch they couldn't explain but they reckoned the creature looked like a monster so maybe the animal was a giant eel
Has anyone offered Nessie TreeFiddy?
@Bill Clinton it is my DNA on Monica's dress. Not yours.
I usually start with $1.05
There might not be plesiosaurs visiting Loch Ness, but the 70 recorded land encounters with large, frightening monsters dating back to the early 1800s. I think Nessie tends to come and go, much like the seals that some times visit the loch.
Everybody talk about giant eels. I’m getting sick of it. 😂😂😂
How many eels would be necessary for have a sustainable population? Certainly a population of 1, or even 10, plesiosaurs would not be sustainable. And 10 would be hard to hide, So, for eels, it ought to be easy to calculate the minimum. And the minimum would likely be in the hundreds-also hard to hide.
I don't know if he'll ever find that fantasy monster
So, when is open swim season in Loch?
The British record freshwater eel (Anguilla anguilla) was caught in 1978 from a relatively rich lake in southern England. It is one of the safest records on the UK list, as even a 7 pound eel is huge for most UK waters. Divers in Loch Ness have reported seeing large eels, but freshwater eels rarely feed in winter, so the idea that a cold, deep, nutrient poor lake in Scotland could produce an eel big enough to be mistaken for a 'monster' is, perhaps, stretching things a bit.
Eels can live 3 years without eating and 50 years dormant
@@KarmaZeusBoi Maybe. What I should have said was that the 44 year old UK freshwater (rod caught) eel record weighed 11lbs. A big, old eel, but hardly the size of a 'monster'.
Waves without wind, fish without fin and a floating island.
Each-uisge! Each-uisge!
Row, row, row your boat gently down the stream. Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily - life is but a dream.
The Loch Ness monster is what I leave every time I go doo doo
The largest freshwater fish was a 24ft beluga sturgeon weighing 3463lbs. Lake monsters are real. I wouldn't be that surprised to hear about a 20ft eel considering how large sturgeon can get.
she isn't hurting anyone, just leave 'er be
carol mcleod but imagine how good it’d taste if it was a giant eel.
Reaper..you are what you sow.
Sexist it could be boy... or non existent
Keeps asking people for money tho.
I BELIVE IN NESSIE!!!
I just want to know how he brought that much water on the plane back to New Zealand when I can't even get a Dr. Pepper to Chicago.
Because its not the US and they aren't as paranoid as we are, plus he probably got permission to transport it through official channels.
A 20 + foot eel is actually scarier to think about.
Loch Ness is just my trouser trout when I'm swimming
I’m just waiting for the day the video that comes out “REAL MEGALADON FOUND” “Real Dinosaur Found Alive” imagine the feeling seeing that title for the first time 😂
A family of giant Eels.
Enchanting Urquhart Castle ruins in the background there. Just in case anybody's wondering ❤️
I had a feeling it was an eel
The Loch Ness monster is just an overgrown pet someone threw into the water when they couldn't feed it anymore
Saw one with a body flippers long neck and head. Came up to fishing dock looked right at my mom me and my brothers and swam away. Saw it in eastern Florida.
god: *causes extreme drought*
Scientists: “aw, bloody news, there ain’t no Nessie”
That "River Monsters" guy thinks it may be an occasional Greenland shark making its way into the Loch
Novembe 8th, there was a sonar image taken from a vessel in the Loch showing something at 700 ft . The water pressure at 700 ft is 300lbs/in2 . What animal can survive that pressure? Also aren't oxygen levels really low at the bottom of a deep lake.
Can snails out of their shells, swim? They often report that they have two "horns". Snails have "horns" or head appendages. I've wondered if it these creatures could be a giant, shell-less snail?
Plot twist: loch Ness is another location all this time giant eel was covering for nessy
This might make sense, considering the fact that it's hard to find. It'll just go into a hole big enough for it to hide.
I don't know what people say about nessie. But I say it exist because one of closest friends in Scotland said that his uncle saw it when he was 15.
I remember when I was a kid and I studied the loch ness monster, (I was really into dinoasuras and cryptids) kinda thought that people didn't care about it anymore because at this point it would probably be dead.
Or never existed in the first place...
This is literally the plot to 'The Loch" by Steve Alten. I think it's getting a cinematic release soon.
IKR?!
Why are they showing a catfish? They can't tell the difference?
It’s a giant snickers bar
Its not an eel. Its bigfoot
For years, I've said Ness(& his similar bodied brethren) are giant freshwater eels.
Finally some actually good news
Giant eels don't raise their head and neck out of the water to impersonate a pleosaur.
Plesiosaurs could not do that
As long as they want tourists, Nessie will be out there.
i went to Loch Ness last year. It was cold.
I went back in 98, and you're right, its very cold.
Way too cold
It’s Scotland, it’s always cold here 😝
Eels are too stupid to avoid getting caught. OTOH, Bigfoot is one clever critter.
encinobalboa Bigfoot is actually a bear species oof
@@coldcloakmusic6630 Bigfoot is a hominid, and they are intelligent. They're also not monkeys or apes. Go watch some Bob Gymlan videos, his stuff is pretty good, very scientific, and extremely plausible.
richard bidinger it’s already been figured out by DNA that Bigfoot is a type of bear species. I’ll link the study if I can find it
@@coldcloakmusic6630 Bigfoot DNA cannot be distinguished from human DNA which is why there is always a negative result for cryptid. Bear DNA is from a bear. Bears do not hide themselves. Bears are not scared of cameras. You would figure a 500 pound 8 foot tall Bigfoot wouldn't be scared of sitting for a portrait but so it would seem.
encinobalboa www.google.com/amp/s/time.com/2948745/dna-analysis-debunks-bigfoot-myth-points-to-unknown-bear-species/%3famp=true
Oh wow, y'all "discovered" something everyone has known for over a decade...
DanielHavoc What exactly are you referring to? They didn’t really say they ‘discovered’ anything, so why did you put it in quotation marks?
I like how people in Australia and America are talking about a lake in Scotland
Of all things going on in the world, multiple news outlets are talking about this?
Why shouldn't they?
So, basically for those of you who didn't know, the average lake is one giant toilet bowl!!!
Now this is time well spent.
Monster sightings are easily explained: people remember stuff being much bigger than what they actually saw. If someone saw a five foot eel, they would likely remember it being at least 10 feet long.
Giant eel could be more dangerous than some dinosaur...
Why not just send underwater drones to scan the whole lake?
@Gel-Man89 You can find an underwater drone for 900$ on Amazon. Take 10 of these, hire 10 boats for one day and call 9 friends or volunteers. Each person will scan a different area of the lake for 10 hours. The lake is not that large. Should cost you 10-20k. Some big CZcamsrs like MrBeast can do it.
Thats cool and all but is that Carson Dailey from mtv?
Sean Rouse yep
God damnit monstah! I ain't given ya no tree fiddy!!
i went hunting with my buddy and while we were out i noticed a footprint...we were out where nobody goes to and i told my friend hey this looks like a primate foot print it even had the distinctive curved big toe..he kept saying no its probably just somebody walking bearfoot....im size 12 shoe and it was bigger than mine...i still regret not taking pictures of it cause it did not look human in any way
That is what it is you can see the outlay of its body when it jumps out of the water.
The pick is obviously of a Giraffe making it's way through some water somewhere.
Oh we're back on that again....🤔
The up turned boat is the classic sighting. I lodged at a B&B on the North shore many years ago and the landlady reckoned locals claimed they'd seen Nessie. The lock was formed 10k years ago so the big question is, who started the myth? .......... a monk!
I'm saying a giant eel...Makes a lot more sense than some dinosaur.
That's what they want you to think.
a fake monster thought of by a genius to make millions selling merch
me looking at google and type lochness and saw something:
this is why the loch ness monster i explain in google:
Elephant drowning in a lake and rising his trunk
I like how she gets excited about " sitings of nessy for for THOUSANDS OF YEARS! lol
i never been seen like the Loch Ness
It is a plesiosaurus that evolved and survived the extinction
Is it possible to even know what plesiosaur DNA would look like being the whole extinction thing?
Personally I like the idea of it being a Greenland Shark
I had a Scottish friend from school when I was young and he said he saw a shark fin in the water at Loch Ness when he was in a blow up dingy
i think an eel if good for the neck and head but what about the body tail and flippers
Omg that's horrifying.
Seals swims happily in water ☺️
Humans : look Monster 😨
just drain the lake
Martxni even better nuke it
😲
Martxni oh yea? You gonna pay to do that and obtain permission? You know how much $$ that would cost if it’s even possible
bdizz77 r/ wooooooosh
Should be renamed: Eel-ee of lochness 🤪
Carson Daly looks like he's wearing an invisible head girdle.
Typically an eel larvae is 1inch long . They grow to 6 feet . Once researchers caught a larvae that was 6 feet long. That would make it 60 feet as an adult. Proof link mysteriousuniverse.org/2011/05/deep-sea-gigantism-curious-cases-of-mystery-giant-eels