Redpill me on the Loch Ness Monster, /an/. Is it possible this

>>2306299
>Is it possible this thing could exist
no
>or is it just a hoaxed load of crap?
yes
>Scientists found out giant squid were real, so why not an evolved variant of the plesiosaur?
retard

> Scientists found out giant squid were real, so why not an evolved variant of the plesiosaur?
It's easy to not find some deep sea animal. Not so easy to miss some giant air breathing reptile in a lake.

Volume of the world's oceans: 1.35 billion cubic kilometers

Volume of Loch Ness: 7.4 cubic kilometers

Finding a live specimen of a giant squid when they primarily inhabit the lower depths of Earths oceans is a lot harder than finding a fucking dinosaur in a lake. There is no way a stable breeding population could be hidden in a lake like that.

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Bears

Nessie doesn't real

>>2306362
Checks out

If it is real, I think it's a giant sturgeon.

>>2306299
She's real alright, let me tell you faggots a story

>be me
>chilling at home playing skyrim
>next thing I know I heard someone knock on my door
>open the door to find one of my sister's friends
>call for my sister to come down
>while we're waiting, she asks me if I can help her
>I say no problem, what do you need
>she looks hesitant but says,
>"I'm gonna need about tree fiddy"
>it was at this moment that my sister finally showed up only to see her best friend turn into a six story tall crustacean from the Paleolithic era
>godamn lochness monster tricked me again

guy who took this photo said on his death bed that the picture is faked

Besides that, are there any cryptids that MIGHT be real?

>>2306508
Cryptid by definition usually implies made up bullshit. If you want examples of animals that were thought extinct, you could look up "living fossils". Coelacanths were thought extinct, but then a small colony was found living somewhere in south asia.

>>2306299
>>>/x/

>>2306473
>>>/reddit/

>>2306508
Orang Pendeks are probably real. They're about chimp-sized monkeys that walk more upright. You have to go deep in the jungles of Asia to find them and few people ever go there so it's just occasional reports from locals, but the sightings go back hundreds of years. I would expect jungle natives to know the difference between a chimp and something that's not.

>>2306508
A variety of African gorilla were thought to be nonexistent until the 1900s until photographed. Most cryptids are mythical, but some are legitimate. It's pretty easy to tell which is which e.g. a remarkably small dinosaur population which has survived alone for 65 m.y. or an unseen species produced by allopatric selection.

>>2306299
We had known giant Squid are real for a long time. You're misunderstanding the somewhat recent achievement of recording one alive in film, something that had never been done before. We knew they existed because rarely they are find dead floating on the ocean, stranded on beaches, inside shark and whale stomach, etc.

We had concrete evidence of their existence before the Loch Ness hoax even started.

Bats. Discuss.

>>2306508
People usually count the Coelacanth as a victory for cryptozoologists, but I've never seen evidence cryptozoology had any interest in proving they were still alive. They just kind latched on to it after their discovery. Still the Coelacanth is undeniably the best thing to ever happen to cryptozoology.

>>2307740
>monkeys

Nope. If they're real, they're apes. Specifically the Hobbit people.

>>2307858
But it's not a dinosaur, it's a plesiosaur. Despite what you think, there is a strong difference. Besides, even if it was real, how the hell has it not broken its neck sitting up like that?

>>2306519
>Cryptid by definition usually implies made up bullshit.
It technically just means animals or plants that have not yet been confirmed to exist, that said most cryptids are bullshit but every now and then you get something like the okapi or platypus that people think is fake until it's confirmed.

>>2306301
it's a fucking lake that doesn't have nearly enough to sustain a population of dinasaour like creature. and now with so much of camera, we would have more clear photo/video

>>2306362
actually, though otters.

When they chase each other in the water and break the surface could look like one large undulating creature

>>2310077
Does Scotland even have otters?

I agree the lake is not big enough to support a creature of that size, let alone a breeding population of them. Basic ecology math should conclusively prove it doesn't exist.

The guy who took the original photo confirmed it's a hoax.

Brilliant bit of marketing, though

>>2306508
Sanksquatch pretty sure is real

>>2306299
Nope. Watch this video. It goes very in-depth.
https://youtu.be/P3MzM1gFDZs

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>>2306299
>>2306308
>>2306473
>Archituethis dux the giant squid described in 1857
>the Colossal squid Mesonychoteuthis hamiltoni described in 1925

When they say we are finding dozens of new species every year they mean insects flowers and small lizards not megalodon and krakens

>>2310319
Reports of Nessie go back to the 1800s

>>2310467
Look at the YouTube video a few posts up. It thoroughly explains that and debunks it.

>>2306299
that's an elephant trunk

>>2306362
you mean....

SEA bears???

/x/

>>2311799
I believe OP came here precisely because /x/ would rather chose to believe in it rather than providing rational arguments.
I mean have you ever been to /x/? Those fuckers will blindly believe anything remotely supernatural.

>>2311829
Yes, that's one thing I've always hated about /x/. They don't allow any debate or critical thinking.
>Yes Nessie is real, end of discussion. If you say otherwise you're disinfo

>>2306299

The most compelling argument against Nessie is the environment of the Loch itself - the water is very cold, poorly oxygentaed at most depths, murky and extremely poor in animal and plant life - ecologically it's a not far off a wasteland and quite incapable of supporting anything larger than a handful of otters.

It's also VERY often visited, on a busy major road and has been monitored in tremendous detail on a good number of occasions - if anything of any size was in there, there would be a LOT more sightings.

Cryptids in general are a mix of legend, imagination, folkloric explanations for other natural phenomena (e.g. dinosaur remains historically interpreted as dragons or giants), plus a kind of "race-memory" of animals that may once have coexisted with early humans but which have long-since been driven to extinction.

There are no significant large cryptids out there other than perhaps a few more deep-water species. Humans are driving *everything* on this planet into extinction - things that were present in huge numbers a few decades ago will become completely extinct in the next few decades: what chance, then, highly specialised and very, very rare taxa? None at-all...

>>2306299
The Loch Ness monster is a giant salamander. This explains why they can go for years without eating. I had a pet newt once that only died after a few months of not being fed, and larger animals need less energy so they could easily survive as ambush predators. They could even live on cannibalism, even autocannibalism, a self-sustaining food source.

>>2311946
such bait

>>2310482
>believing any video you find on the internet

>>2306299
>Redpill me on the Loch Ness Monster
THEY'RE PUTTING DRUGS IN THE WATER! TO MAKE THE DINOSAURS GAY!

>>2312120
Don't forget it makes them accept refugee dinosaurs from other lochs.

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>>2311946

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>>2312120

God killed all the dinosaurs because they were gay.

And he's going to kill OP for the same reason.

>>2311946
Are you telling me plagas are real?

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>>2311829
Hey, it`s willing suspension of disbelief.
It`s more entertaining that having every thead end in "yep, that`s bullshit".

>tfw the chance of non-avian dinosaur surviving somewhere is almost zero.

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>>2312352
It is zero.

Birds win.

For the alleged descriptions of sightings, it looks like a plesiosaur which would make it a living fossil
Not impossible but very unlikely

Nessie is folklore; the insistence of her existence is used to create a sense of mystery around Loch Ness (and that area of Scotland) is used to drum up business in the local area via tourism.

Nessie is all about money.

>>2306299
> Scotland) is used to

>and is*

>>2312352
good thing plesiosaurs aren't dinosaurs

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>>2312467
y-you'll never be as cool as the other reptiles, birbs! even if you are dinosaurs!

>>2311883
t. I've never browsed /x/

It used to be a top tier board, but now it's right there competing with /co/ and /tv/ or fucking /b/ for the title of shittiest.

Just go to the loch 30 minutes before the nearest bus arrives and bring about three fiddy with you.

Now that loch ness monster is cleaver now, so be on the lookout for anybody asking you for that tree fiddy, because chances are they are the loch ness monster in disguise.

>>2306299

there isn't enough biomass in the loch to support to

t. My limnology prof

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Hmmm...

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I know what lurks in Loch Ness. It's real I tell ya. Just misunderstood. People hunt it till today.

It's actually a rare type of Shark.

>>2310465
Dolphins are the most dangerous. They rape their victims.

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>>2314441

>tfw slowest growing/moving shark ever
>look like a retarded torpedo
>over 80% of us have parasitic copepods latched on to our eyes causing blindness

Was with a colleague when we tagged some last summer

>>2314449
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfPZu5RbKM0

>>2314453
Save them, Anon. Take the copepods off their eyes.

>>2314453
How do Greenland sharks hunt? When I was a kid I loved learning about these, but no one could answer that question for me.

>>2306362
a weapon to surpass metal gear.

>>2314472
Probably scent

>>2313534
That's because /x/ is a role play board you retard

The loch ness monster is just one of Crowley's summonings. There is a reason why the lake attracts so many occultists.

Is it possible something similar to Ness lives in the ocean?

>>2315264
Not if it breathes air. It would've been seen eventually coming to the surface.

>>2315279
Could something that breathes air have some sort of whales for a natural and hardcore predator, so it never pops up close to us since it thinks all the boats are predators?

>>2312119
>Believing in the retarded fallacy that because it's from the internet it has to automatically be false.

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Giant Long-necked Seal

>>2315288
whales had boats as hardcore predators and knew it, didn't do them any good.

>>2315288
You would still expect to see it pop up from air planes or satellite photos.

>>2313677
Is that three pounds fiddy pence or three dollar fiddy cent?