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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Aisha Rimi

Existence of Loch Ness monster ‘plausible,’ scientists say after fossil discovery

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The existence of Loch Ness monster is “plausible”, British scientists have said.

The suggestion came after researchers found fossils of small plesiosaurs – long-necked marine reptiles from the age of dinosaurs – in a 100-million-year-old river system that is now Morocco’s Sahara Desert, suggesting they may have lived in freshwater.

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