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Gambling911.com has posted odds of proof that the Loch Ness Monster exists now by December 31, 2022 at 40-1 despite news that "plausible" new evidence may prove he (or she) does.
The elusive beast, affectionately known as "Nessie", is said to inhabit Loch Ness in the Scottish Highlands. The scientific community has long suggested that alleged sightings of the Loch Ness Monster were the result of hoaxes, wishful thinking, and the misidentification of other mundane objects.
In August 1933, the Courier published the account of George Spicer's alleged sighting. The earliest documentation of a monster in the region came in the sixth century AD.
Scientists at the University of Bath discovered some plesiosaurs - presumably that's what "Nellie" would be classified as - may have lived in freshwater environments. Researchers recently found fossils of small plesiosaurs in a 100-million-year-old river system that is now Morocco’s Sahara Desert.
Don't count on Nellie to be caught in a net any time soon (hence the 40-1 odds a live Loch Ness monster is discovered).
"It's scrappy stuff, but isolated bones actually tell us a lot about ancient ecosystems and animals in them," Dr. Nick Longrich, one of the authors of the Bath paper, said in a press release. "They're so much more common than skeletons, they give you more information to work with. The bones and teeth were found scattered and in different localities, not as a skeleton. So each bone and each tooth is a different animal."
- Jagajeet Chiba, Gambling911.com
