Boat? Whale? No, it’s the Loch Ness monster – again

An object has been spotted on Google Earth in Loch Ness. It looks like a giant tadpole. It must be Nessie

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An extraordinary new image on Google Earth has given fresh life to the age-old conundrum of whether Loch News really is inhabited by a monster. The image was unearthed by security guard Jason Cooke who was browsing through satellite pictures on the website, presumably on a quiet night, and has reignited the previously slumbering world of Nessieology – there have been no wavelets since a spate of sightings in 2005. Indeed, so worried had Nessieologists become that some were speculating that he/she/it might have fallen victim to climate change in the Highlands.

The object spotted by Cooke looks like a giant tadpole, with an oval body, tail and flippers. Nessieologists insist it confirms that the “monster” is a plesiosaur – an aquatic reptile dating from the Jurassic period 150m years ago. Others have speculated that the object could be a boat, a whale, a nuclear submarine that had lost its bearings, or Gordon Brown, who has recently been seen as rarely as Nessie, out for an early-morning swim.

“It’s a dramatic and compelling image,” said Cameron McSporran, head of the Institute of Applied Nessieology at Inverness University. “It is probably the most important sighting since 1974, when campers at the Loch Ness caravan park saw a vast green scaly creature with a curved head and a long, slender body at four in the morning. It requires a great deal of detailed analysis and close consultation with the Highlands and Islands Tourist Board, but I think at last we are close to silencing the doubters.” McSporran was talking from a diving-bell 300ft beneath Loch Ness in his first media interview since the Upper Cretaceous era.

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