What if The Loch Ness Monster Was Actually a Giant Eel?

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What if The Loch Ness Monster Was Actually a Giant Eel?
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A giant creature thought to inhabit the waters of Scotland's Loch Ness remains a popular subject of speculation, in spite of pretty thorough debunkings.

, and the size estimate for Nessie in general is around 6.1 meters. This means, Foxon found, that if you do see an eel in Loch Ness, it's probably not going to be a biggun.

"The chances of finding a large eel in Loch Ness are around 1 in 50,000 for a 1-meter specimen, which is reasonable given the loch's fish stock and suggests some sightings of smaller unknown animals may be accounted for by large eels,""However, the probability of finding a specimen upward of 6 meters is essentially zero; therefore, eels probably do not account for sightings of larger animals.

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