photo in existence although lacking in detail by today's standards many were convinced of its authenticity after all this was a time before photoshop and cgi a time when people truly believed that the cameras never lied for many the surgeon's photograph provided irrefutable proof that there really was a monster living in loch ness now that it appeared there might be some truth behind the many sightings that had been reported some began to speculate as to what kind of animal the loch ness monster might be the most prominent explanation was that nessie was descended from a lineage of plesiosaurs that somehow survived the kt extinction event that wiped out the dinosaurs NUMBER_TOKEN million years ago and adapted to life in bonnie scotland the idea that something fought to have been extinct for millions of years might be discovered alive and kicking today might seem ludicrous but it has actually happened before scientists only knew of the existence of coelacanths a type of fish they presumed had gone extinct during the cretaceous period free fossils up to NUMBER_TOKEN million years old and then someone found one swimming off the coast of africa in NUMBER_TOKEN so with that in mind could a plesiosaur really be lurking in loch ness well the honest slightly boring answer is no probably not for a long time scientists assumed plesiosaurs could never have survived in loch ness because it was believed they were cold-blooded and therefore needed relatively warm water to thrive scottish locks have a lot of things going for them but paddling temperatures isn't one of them but recent research suggests plesiosaurs may well actually have been warm-blooded blowing that particular argument out of the freezing cold scottish lock water sadly that doesn't make the pleciosaur theory any more likely after all to have survived the last NUMBER_TOKEN million years a whole colony of those beasts would need to be down there not only would it be pretty difficult for a large number of giant reptiles to hide in loch ness without modern technology being able to locate them we'd also expect to find plenty of plesiosaur bones littering deluxe depths and we haven't the truth is beyond a few random sightings over the years there is precisely zero evidence that there's anything in loch ness other than fish and a few thousand empty bottles of iron blue but if not a plesiosaur then what exactly did wilson take a photo of well in NUMBER_TOKEN NUMBER_TOKEN years after the photograph was taken two gentlemen named david martin and alastair boyd made it to their mission to find out exactly that and what they discovered was a lot stranger than you might have imagined the two men were members of a research team based in loch ness and they were keen to prove once and for all whether the surgeon's photo was authentic boyd was further buoyed see what i did there by his own sighting of nessie some years earlier and he was desperate to know for certain if wilson really had photographed a lock's resident monster the pair had recently come into possession of a newspaper article from NUMBER_TOKEN in which it was alleged the photo had been the result of an elaborate hoax for whatever reason the article hadn't
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