According to the Times newspaper on March 6, 2006, a Scottish paleontologist is convinced after two years of research that the legendary Loch Ness Monster is actually just a circus elephant swimming in the lake.
Upon discovering that several circuses had previously stopped by the shores of Loch Ness to rest their animals, Neil Clark argued that the trunk and upper back of these thick-skinned creatures, the only parts of their body visible while swimming, could easily be mistaken for a monster.
No one has ever proven to have seen Nessie, a water dragon that has appeared in legends since the 17th century. However, sightings of Nessie have become more frequent (four times in 2005), leading to various hoaxes related to the subject.
Neil Clark, the curator of the Glasgow Museum, published his conclusions in the Open Society Geological Society Journal in March 2006.
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