00:03The Loch Ness Monster
00:04It was a headline-grabbing dive into cryptozoology, albeit one that has long been debunked.
00:10But what if Nessie wasn't a remnant of the Cretaceous period and some leftover dinosaur, but rather a giant eel?
00:16That was one of the last explanations that carried any weight within the speculative community.
00:20But now that theory has been put to the test, and the results are a bit disappointing.
00:24The Loch Ness Monster was first sighted back in the 1930s, and rose to international phenomenon after this photo was
00:30published.
00:31The image is now believed to have been a fake created by an actor at the time.
00:35And in 2018, a sweeping DNA analysis of the body of water discovered there was no genetic material related to
00:41giant prehistoric creatures.
00:43However, they did find eel DNA.
00:45The Loch is a known home of European eels, but investigators hoping to put Nessie's speculation to bed wanted to
00:50be sure there weren't any giant eels responsible for the Loch Ness sightings.
00:54Now, after capturing and measuring some 20,000 eels from the area, they have found that the upper limit for
00:59eel size within the Loch is only 4.3 feet.
01:03A far cry from sea monster status, one which experts estimate based on this photo would have had to be
01:08around 20 feet in length.
01:09Meaning that's another Nessie theory down the drain.
01:12But if you want to take a big screen.
01:17So that's a long time frame.
01:17We're calling the last photo at the top left.
01:17Besides that, this is a step in the building.
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