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As much as I would like to believe it, I have to say the Loch Ness Monster is not real. Let's look at the logistics for a moment. Nessie is supposed to be big. Really big. It takes a lot of food to feed an animal of such size. The loch couldn't support such a beast for very long before it was simply cleaned of food.

The Monster was first reported in the mid-1930s. It was also reported as fully grown. That means it would be over 80 years old. That's a long time to live in such a confined environment. If it did exist, it would have died long ago. Perhaps it mated and had offspring? Why haven't we seen multiple simultaneous monsters instead of only one? Even if it could have bred, that would have destroyed the ecosystem of the loch decades ago. Couple that with the fact there would only be a single line from which all the monsters bred from and we'd have a loch full of really hungry in-bred dinosaurs.

They say Nessie is a dinosaur. A reptile. That means it's cold blooded. When was the last time anyone saw a lizard in the Scottish mountains? The waters of the loch must be mighty chilly, which would kill a reptile in a fairly short while. Of course, nothing says The Monster has to be a reptile, it's just one idea.

From the scientific aspect, it seems like Nessie is out of luck again. Multiple efforts to track the beast using sonar and other means over the years have proven to be fruitless. We've managed to hunt some of the largest whales roaming free on the planet out of existence, but we can't manage to find one giant lizard in a pond? No, as much as I would like for it to be so, the Loch Ness Monster isn't real.

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