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Robb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-17-03 12:27 PM
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Loch Ness Fossil Discovered
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http://www.abc.net.au/worldtoday/content/2003/s904619.htm

There's elation on the banks of Scotland's Loch Ness today, following the discovery of a 150-million year-old fossil of a long necked sea reptile called a plesiosaur, which bears an uncanny resemblance to the Loch Ness monster. The fossil was discovered by a 67-year-old pensioner, who says he literally tripped over it in shallow water near Loch Ness.

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oneighty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-17-03 12:54 PM
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1. Proof at last!
The ghost of things past still ply the Loch waters.

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MisterP Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-17-03 01:00 PM
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2. you superstitious kindergartners!
how can rocks fall from the sky, too?
</19th-cent pompous sarcasm>
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hotphlash Donating Member (534 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-17-03 02:20 PM
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3. Wasn't the plesiosaur a salt water animal?
That bone may have found its way into the loch(through nature or hoax) but it is not proof that Nessie exists or ever existed there.
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