The Nessie Hunters
(Dr. Robert Rines) continued
A picture of Monster's head, 1975 and an artist's sketch showing more detail.
One of the world's foremost experts on dinosaurs, Dr. Chris
McGowan of the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, giving his personal view,
said : "I am satisfied that there is a sufficient weight of evidence to
support that there is an unexplained phenomenon of considerable
interest in Loch Ness; the evidence suggests the presence of large
aquatic animals." Another of the worlds most eminent zoologists,
Professor A. W. Crompton, Director of the Harvard University Museum of
Camparative Zoology said : "I personally find them (the underwater
photographs) extremely intriging and sufficiently suggestive of a large
aquatic animal to both urge and recommend that, in the future, most
intensive investigations be undertaken in the Loch."
Sir Peter Scott who, among his many responsibilities, was Chairman of
the World Wildlife Fund, said the underwater pictures, in conjunction
with the earlier film records, left no further doubt in his mind that
large animals exist in Loch Ness.
The only group of zoologists who had studied the material but who
concluded that it contained no evidence of large unknown animals in the
Loch was a group from the British Museum of Natural History. As in 1972
the British Museum acknowledged that the new pictures were entirely
authentic but concluded that they did not constitute "acceptable
evidence" of the existence of an unidentified species in Loch Ness. Meanwhile, the animals were given a scientific
name "Nessiteras rhombopteryx" by Sir Peter Scott so that they could be
added to Britains schedule of officially protected wildlife. The name,
translated from the Greek, means "The wonder of Ness with the diamond
shaped fin", a reference to the flipper photographed by Dr Rines in
1972.
N.B It was discovered that if you re-arranged the letters of Nessiteras
rhombopteryx it could read "Monster hoax by Sir Peter S" or as Dr Rines
found it could also read " Yes, both pix are Monsters R."
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