Could the Loch Ness Monster be a Plesiosaur?
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- Today we finally finish up Loch Ness by speculating what the monster could be if I am completely wrong about it's apparent non-existence. I talk largely about plesiosaurs and leeches... so I hope you enjoy ;)
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Nessie being a leech is a LOT scarier than Nessie being a plieseousaur.
I think so toüúuûū
yup
John Mace nessie prolly isn’t a leech medicinal leech...sooooooo
@@jedidr4918 what you want no blood?
*plesiosaur
I would rather swim with a giant reptile any day than with a giant Leach if given the choice!
Chris Fielding most leeches don’t even feed on blood
D r . S p u d
Not just that, but the suction and writithing prey sometimes tear themselves in half while being eaten
I'd swim with neither
those leeches that do feed on blood usually dont target warm blood prey, they go after fish and such
I would also rather get in the water with a dangerous plesiosaur than a dangerous leech. [Because: ]When you think about it, plesiosaur nessie would prefer fish and only attack people for self-defense (like baleen whales only eating krill), so don't bother it and it won't attack you; but leech nessie would try to suck you like a grape, which makes you the prey in that relationship, worse than that you're a mere snack, you are nothing but a small bloodpack.
In the end the question is:
"Prehistoric predator that won't try to eat you but can still kill you"
or
"Creepy, Serpentine, Fast-Swimming, Vampiric Mutha-fricker that wants you dead"
...
I'll take option one please
For my final point:
Man, f*** leeches, they're the vampires of the water, and they look like snakes! They're slimy, creepy, fast, and dangerous. They're worse than bats, sharks, and snakes because they have three jaws, and worst of all
I don't like 'em
But that's just my opinion, I was probably also wrong a few times, so feel free to correct me.
There's a scientist that has dedicated his life to studying this creature, and he thinks that it's most likely a sturgeon. Yep, just a big fish.
a FILM -oh wait wrong channel
Uh how big?A giant monster sturgeon is still...impressive!
@@wirelessone2986 28 feet long and 2,000 pounds
Mechaghostman2 *imagine it’s just a giant lamprey.*
@@dino-joe AAAAAND cut.
No matter what plans you humans have, you will never catch me...
yes we will
@@lukeskywalker9016 Now I wanna see Luke Skywalker trying to catch Nessie in an epic battle
@@huskybusky2845 challenge accepted
I'll go there and start swimming in the lake
I know I can’t catch you. You come in many forms. One second your a plesiosaur next your a log or a group of seals.
"Well it was about this time I noticed this girl scout was about 8 stories tall and was a crustacean from the Paleozoic Era."
"It was the God damn lockness monsta!"
But did you bang?
@@breezyhillproductions349 He still owes me tree fiddy! D:
I bet it is a lapras
I mean, long flexible neck, bumpy structure on her back, flippers, chills on land in a cold environment? Yeah it's a Lapras. Actually in the movie water horse, a movie about a boy raising the loch Ness monster, it looks just like Lapras but without the shell
Pokemaster 51
That's because lapras was actually based on the Loc Ness as monster, it's code name was literally just nessie.
@@ZombieBarioth r/woosh
A shiny laprals?
Good one.
interesting theory! i absolutely hate the idea of a leech that large existing, though.
Or really any worm of that size.
Leaches are sexy.
Nope nope nope nope nope nope. Please tell me that leeches don't live in Florida
Id love it if those were real
Unlikely, the majority of the sightings actually describe the back of an animal rising to the surface and laying stationary, the back resembles an overturned boat. The skin resembling a whales and looking a bit rubbery with the water rolling off of it. When the animal submerges, it left a wake(just like a whale would) though no whale species has been known to enter the loch as far as we know.
*Imagine if the lochness is a giant lamprey.*
Or an giant eel
Haha giant single felled organism
@@pluggothesluggo5509 is that right? Lol
what
Shoot
I once listened to a radio program where a zoologist was interviewed about Loch Ness. He suggested it may have been an oceanic eel that never mated, and experienced decades of growth. The most believable explanation I have heard so far.
Personally, I find the photo of seals swimming in a row being mistaken for a large serpent-like creature at 0:37 to be the most likely explanation for the sightings,
there have been seals observed visiting the lake from time to time.
I think a type of snake like a boa
@@stevendademon009 in Scotland?
Given that Loch Ness was under a mile of ice during the last glacial maximum, "Nessie" wouldn't have been an air breather, so that rules out any type of reptile.
We all know it's a Lapras.
@@TheKaijuGamer_ Thanks.
Well if it was under a mile of ice that would stop anything from surviving that
@@TheKaijuGamer_ We're talking centuries if not millenia here. Your "air pocket" theory doesn't work.
@@TheKaijuGamer_ How many biology classes have you ever taken?
I have 2 degrees in biology and work towards my PhD, also in biology. I know.
Trey 2017: "In summary Plesiosaurs are deaf, living torpedoes with bad neck posture."
(Slowly Claps)
And the Loch Ness Monster is..........
A Basking Owl Shark
Queen Elizabeth
And it's closest cusins are barn and bark owls
And it swims around with it’s basking shark counterparts while poking its head out to look at it’s owl friends.
Gijsbertus Laurens van de Vooren that was random
You clearly meant a Queen elizibethan's basking owl shark cousin.
This is the coolest, most plausible, and freakiest explanation for Nessie. I love it.
Wild Speculation:
Nessie and her kin are giant relatives of soft shell turtles. Soft shell turtles are capable holding their breath for up to a month because they can partially extract oxygen from water through internal structures in the throat. Soft shell turtles are also noted for having very long necks for turtles, and their nostrils are on the front of their faces (some even have short elephant like snouts they use like snorkels!) so it's easy for them to just stick only the tip of their nose out of the water to catch that monthly breath of air.
Due to the coldness of the water and relative lack of large food creatures, I propose that giant lake turtles take a weakness of most turtles and turn it into an advantage. Turtles have slow metabolisms and NessieKin are even slower than normal. One spends majority of a month resting in the bottom of the lake, where is easily mistaken for a large submerged boulder, barely awake. Should the turtle sense a fish (or school of fish or a non cautious juvenile NessieKin) large enough to be worth eating, it rapidly extends its neck with his jaws open to catch prey. After multiple weeks on the lake bed, NessieKin become active swimmers for a few days; breathing daily, hunting (large fish, juvenile NessieKin and the rare mammal) and mating. Due to this metabolism NessieKin are some of the longest lived animals ever, with potential life spans in centuries although few live long enough to reach adulthood due to cannibalism.
NessieKin only come on land to lay small eggs. The newborns are visually similar to adult normal turtles that only a herpetologist would notice something odd about them. Growth is slow (20 to 50 years) and adult NessieKin are their greatest threat. As the juvenile matures, the feet become flippers and the scutes do not grow. Rather, they separate as the flesh, bone and skin underneath expands.
About the swan pose. NessieKin only do it when mating (which happens underwater). The weight of the male causes the female's inflexible body to tilt. Witnesses report the familiar long neck/small head and mistake part the female's back for a hump. Sometimes the male's head and the front part of the male's back are mistaken for extra humps. (Lol, hump.)
thats fucking terrifying
That cool
@roachdoggjr1940 Nessies are giant soft shell turtles that can hold their breath for a month.
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The leech hypothesis would actually explain the very first sighting from 1933 really well.
Disappointed Turtle what about the story about the monk that repelled Nessie away from a swimmer
He used holy water [strong alcohol] as part of the exorcism.
Vicho Deivis aaaah
But why does it always want treefiddy?
Grim Reaper
GAH DAMN LAWCKNESS MONSTAH, I AINT GIVEN YOU MY MONEY
But did the giant leech have feathers?
Munch Master they must have blubber or fat such as many marine creatures that are not fish such as whales seals and I think otters don't count me out for that
sturgeon are a good explanation for many lake monsters.They sometimes surface feed and look very unusual when doing so.
Huh?
Yes.
@@erickapujol265 sorry but dolphins don't have much blubber compared to their larger cousins, the whales. I mean have you noticed that dolphin are actually buff like Hercules. As the matter of fact, they have more muscle than fat to be honest; not to mention, these marine mammals are genetically predisposed to be quite muscular for cetaceans as they need a lot of muscle for swimming. In fact, orca aka killer whale is the largest dolphin of them all and bottlenose dolphins are also pretty massive as well, and thus dolphins need a ton of muscular mitochondria and a lot of blood needs to go into their muscles to fuel them; plus dolphins have very large hearts to help them pump blood into all of the muscles in their body. One of the reasons dolphins are such athletic sea creatures, the elite athletes of the ocean, the super athletes of the ocean. In fact, dolphins are very one of the most herculean cetaceans you can think of. With 50% of the dolphin's body mass being pure muscle, the strength, the speed and the intelligence, it's no surprise that dolphins are very much likened to real life superheroes; heck, they are superheroes of the ocean, kinda being like if Superman was a sea creature. Furthermore, you can say, with 50% of overall body mass of a dolphin being pure muscle (which varies from species to species, ranging from bottlenose dolphin's 300 kg of pure muscle to killer whale's 4 t of pure muscle), these sea creatures are basically bodybuilders of the ocean. Hence the dolphin being the national animal of Greece since dolphins are very strong and muscular, which paired with the national hero of Greece being Heracles (more popularly called Hercules), makes eve more sense.
I remember there being a movie I used to watch with my mom. I think it was called “Water Horse” or something along those lines. I don’t remember that much about it, but I think it was meant to be about a kid finding a Loch Ness Monster egg, hatching it, and raising it until he releases it into the lake. And I think at the end it cuts to him as an old man finishing off the story and there being a big reveal that he was the kid.
As I don’t really remember much of the actual plot, I don’t have an opinion, but I remember being so interested in the movie purely because of the graphics.
@@thedude2131 yes it was set during worldwar 2 and the army at first thought it was Nazi submarines
Lol, I'm so old now. When I was a kid instead of "the water horse" it was "baby the lost legend ". I took my son to see the water horse.
Omg i loved this Movie when i was little
That's how I started knowing what the Loch Ness Monster is.
I also remember this movie! My Grandma made me a giant plushie of the Nessie-ish thing
dude i love you're videos. You taught me more about prehistoric life and science than all my years of school combined. I also love you're honest completely unbiased explanations and debunkings, explain on trey, explain on.
Some believe that Nessie is a surviving fresh water version of the ancient whale Basilosaurus.
That's even dumber than the plesiosaur
*i believe that’s possible*
There's clearly 2 different beliefs between a prehistoric marine reptile or a prehistoric marine mammal but I don't believe either animal inhabits the loch
No
What
How
The Loch Ness Leech will forever haunt my nightmares.
Tersch.
its either a barn owl or a basking shark corpse............OR ITS A BARN OWL LIVING IN A BASKING SHARK CORPSE!
My friend lived in a basking shark corpse, he rented the place from a couple of barn owls that were had moved to Scotland from West Virginia.
Jovie Tydus " it either is.... or...." There's at least one far better option - it's complete myth!
Yesno
Gunshots, explosions, screams: I sleep
Trey uploads a video: Real shit!
Disappointed Turtle
City of Detroit ? xD
The DORUK Nope. Memetown
Disappointed Turtle so true
Trey uploads a dino profile video: ASCENDED
Disappointed Turtle instead of drugs, I watch treys vids. For only they can sustain me
0:45 I never knew Red Skull fought Nessie … 🤔
Nessie was the unsung hero of WW2. Without it, Cap would've never been able to stop him
Lol
Look Charlie! it's a Liopleurodon!
Yannick Recanatini the good ol youtube days 😂
shun the non believers.. Charlie..
*magical liopleurodon*
A magical Liopleurodon!
it's probably just a drowning kid
A child drowning for 1500 years?
RandomBeast whoosh
RandomBeast sound like SCP material
RandomBeast
We all float
@@inconspicuous7464 yes a child has fallen into the red pond and keeps going in and out of both dimensions ahhhhhh
*but Coellaccanths...*
^^
HOLY GUACAMOLE TREY REPLIED TO MY COMMENT
Coellaccanths are a myth, just like North Dakota (Jimmy Neutron Reference)
Coelacanths are actually just a juvenile form of basking shark
lol
a giant leech... well I never saw that coming but it makes total sense. So there is still the Ropen, but I think I know what it is... the still elusive Barn Owl-Shark and its prey of choice the Basking Shark-Owl, the Barn Owl-shark uses its bioluminec to confuse the Basking Shark-owls and draws them in. While the Basking Shark-owls have a diet of roots, fruits, etc and on occasion supplement it with a dead human, bring one of the few species on the island with that level of protein. However people have only sceen the Barn Owl-shark and have in error and confusion conflated it with it's prey, the shark owl. Saddly both are on the verge of extinction as humans have altered the island's ecosystem too greatly and too quickly for either to adjust. It is likely that both species will die out in this generation. But there is a flicker of hope, with sea levels raising the owl shark might be able to find more food as more fish are able to survive and with human population curbed on the island, maybe the shark owls will have less competition... it's a long shot but I believe they will make it through.... Feel free to use this when you get the chance for tge Ropen what if video... just give credit where credit is do.
He already dd the Ropen.
Now we need bigfoot.
Now we need bigfoot.
I bet it's a type of gigantopithecus. I base this on looks alone.
UnimaginativeName he never did the what if
Your giant leech concept is pretty great, and it helped me with a project.
I've been working on a speculative evolutionary past to some random earthlike planet, and what I've ended up with is a bunch of species of tube creatures. They're water-going tubes that move by pushing/pulling water through a central tube. Chemoautotrophs, filter nutrients from water, etc.
Well, you've made me realize they're very similar to Annelids on earth, so thats very useful in terms of seeing how these sorts of creatures work in this world, which will help me develop them in the other one.
Still no idea how I'm gonna go from limbless annelids to limbed, conscious creatures capable of tool useage. Anywho, great video.
Nessie the plesiosaur: intriguing, fascinating, majestic, mysterious...
Nessie the giant leech: I won’t be setting a foot on Scotland ever in my life
The Loch Ness Monster is real! I saw it flying to the Moon the other day!
Spotnot How is that possible if the moon is fake?
Water Nebula Flying is not a hoax Gravity is a hoax.... NOW JUMP AND YOU WILL FLY!!!
dragonsforever21 what kind of cheese?
pfff the moon?
IT WENT TO THE SECOND SUN!!!
Nah, it's hiding under our flat Earth. Also it can't be near the moon because of the reptilians.
What if plesiosaurs actually had really fat necks?
oh you mean the obeseasaur.
We are IF exactly
Disappointed Turtle lol
Like penguins!
But could a marine reptile like a plesiosaur have evolved into having a flexible neck and being more adaptable than before?
I know you said that Nessie couldn't be a reptile but after the description you gave it the first thing I thought was a snake neck turtle, with the long flexible neck and paddle like flippers
Ethan Smith Also, aren't there some turtles that have gill-like organs in their anus that partially allow them to breathe underwater?
Disappointed Turtle well no true turtle species has gills or breathes underwater
cake art pb erica what about the Australian Fitzroy? It's not really gills, but still an organ that allows them to breathe through their cloaca
Some turtles can indeed absorb a small amount of oxygen through their skin in limited areas. It's not much, but they don't use as much oxygen when holding still, so they can remain underwater for quite some time when inactive.
Thus explaining the lack of obvious appearances above water.
Honestly, my best guess for Loch Ness would be some kind of giant eel; slow-growing, long-living, doesn't need to breath air (and thus be seen commonly at the surface), has the elongated shape, lower food requirements due to cold-blooded nature, etc.
Short answer- no, plesiosaurs lacked the neck muscle to hold their heads above the water such as how the Loch Ness monster is claimed to do.
Shorter answer- no the Loch Ness monster isn’t as real
adolf shitler you’re not considering the fact that if it exists it would have most likely evolved since the KGB and could had evolved to hold its neck above water. Just a speculation though
adolf shitler well they could have evolved a new neck have you ever thought of that?
LowFatMylk thats what I was gonna tell him too
Austin SY yeah but it’s clearly shown that evolution is a long process. And even so, what’s the point for them to get there head out of the water? Does it give em a advantage? Even so, we would of spot one. Or at least find a beached one when they die.
We got a professor here
OMG TREYY! YOU FINALLY UPLOADED
Yup!
TREY the Explainer could you do the lizard man if scape ore swamp ive debunked it but id like to see your idea
TREY the Explainer Trey are you ever going cover the spectlive hypotosis of what the ropen would actully be like you said in the video (My concept is that it is nothing more then a large batlike vulture covered in somesort of preveousy unknown biolumiest moss (like a sloth)
TREY the Explainer Also I thought of some crypitds that you could tackle dor future videos
Mongolian Death Worm
Ningin
Jersey Devil
Chupacabra
Bigfoot, Yeti, Skunk Ape or any kind of apeman in general
Lizard Man of Scape Ore Swamp
Dogmen/werewolf
Owlman of Cornwell (unless you think its to similar to Mothman)
Hopskinville Goblins (unless that counts with aliens)
Tsuskino (aka one of the few cryptids I can scientifically somewhat see being real as some sort of high jumping legless lizerd but then again prove me wrong)
Ustoleit's cat Perilous Thats actully a good one also
No it's a basking owl shark
No it's E.L. Wallace in his latest poorly made hoax disguise.
Tyler A rotting basking shark corpse
No its a flying space ballon owl shark tusk whale skull
You're so dumb to think it's a shark sharks don't have long necks idiot
Kevin Gomez way to play along buck-o.
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Lam Ham lmao tf
I've been praying for the last week for Trey to upload.
I need to ask you to stop. That... shouting... is making people nervous
This is an excellent video, Trey and I have to give you props for it. I have been saying the exact same things for years now, whenever I happen to come across a video relating to Loch Ness and its monster. You need to assess this situation with logic, keeping in mind that we're dealing with an animal, and not some type of mythological ninja creature that vanishes out of sight whenever humans are near. You went over many of the points that I would focus on, much to my liking, because many people discussing creatures like the Loch Ness monster (and some other similar cryptic beasts) completely ignore the reality of organisms in ecosystems.
For starters, the 65 million year gap in the fossil record is a *huge* problem for the monster supposedly being a species of long-necked Plesiosaur. We don't know of *any* fossil evidence, either direct or trace fossils, of these animals past, what used to be called, the KT boundary, on a global level. So while not a single bone of these animals is known from the end of the Mesozoic up untill present day, they somehow magically pop into existence again, in a lake in Scotland. This should be enough to convince anyone that the monster can't be a Plesiosaur.
Another problem is that if you're seeing one individual of a species, there must in fact be many, unless it just so happens to be the last of its kind, which is quite unlikely considering the geological time. Usually, if there's one, there are many. I think the lack of consistent sightings is another big glaring issue, which is based on a number of arguments, one being the fact that you would expect a community of these animals roaming the seas (or the lake). Another one (and again, you addressed this), is that Plesiosaurs required oxygen, so we would naturally see them on a regular basis, coming up for air, or staying near the surface for at least a while, before diving back into the deep. The fact that they gave birth to live young (instead of laying eggs) is yet another reason for why we would spot them every now and then. Giving birth can be an energy-consuming activity, again, the female Plesiosaur would keep near the surface for a time, and the young Plesiosaur wouldn't be diving very deep during its first weeks. Giving birth near the surface also poses a great risk to both mother and newborn, with predators stalking them, like sharks and orcas. This might go unnoticed for a while, but to think that this event would never be seen or documented just goes to show that it's just not very probable. People chum the waters for various reasons, attracting all kinds of predatory species, big and small, so why has no one ever spotted a Plesiosaur, attracted to the smell of an easy meal? We see baitballs in the seas, with huge amounts of smal fish being preyed upon by a great many of different predators, ranging from small, to medium-sized, to enormous white sharks being attracted, or even whales. Where are the Plesiosaurs when these events take place? Events that are very often filmed for wildlife documentaries. No Plesiosaurs, which is odd, considering how large they are, and one would expect them to actually track large pods of small to medium-sized fish, as so many predatory sea creatures do. Humans cast giant nets in the oceans, with a huge number of animals caught as by-products, ranging from sharks to dolphins to turtles. No Plesiosaur was ever caught in fishing nets. The point being: we don't spot them in the real world. They are never filmed by documentary makers, they never are around events where one would expect to see them, we never see them near the surface giving birth or floating around, dead. So the complete lack of these types of sightings really means something. They're not there, it's as simple as that.
There is more that can be said about this, but I think the main arguments against it being some kind of Plesiosaur are; the fact that there's an absolutely gigantic gap in the fossil record, and the fact that we should be seeing them the same way we see any other large active sea creature. I used to address the Coelacanth 'counter-argument', but it's such an obviously erroneous comparison, I think intelligent people can easily dismiss it.
Another media that features the famous cryptic of Loch Ness was In the 2023 DreamWorks Animation film "Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken"🦑🔱🧜🏻♀️ the Gillmans have the famous Scottish cryptid as a family pet who goes by the name "Nessie".
Nessie, commonly shortened to Ness, is a minor character in the DreamWorks animated film, Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken. He/she is a sea dog, being the Gillman’s family pet.
Personality:
Nessie is an emotionally-intelligent sea creature. Being described as a “tiny genius” by the Gillman kids, he/she is able to help guide the family in the right direction in his/her own way. Just like real-life animals, the sea dog is capable of sensing the emotions of those around him, namely his family, and comforting them whenever they feel down.
Even if he/she only can communicate through squeaks, he/she seems to enjoy some sense of order, as he/she acts as an alarm for the family for when they need to leave to start their days, whether jobs or school.
Physical Appearance:
He/she is a dog-like creature with pink skin and a blue mouth and blue markings on his/her body, he or she has pointy teeth in his/her jaws and has a purple tongue that he/she sticks out of his/her mouth sometimes, he/she has pink eyes on his blue antenna/eyestalk, he has ears shaped like fins and has a short tail, having six legs.
For attire, Nessie simply dawns a multicolored knitted collar connected by a ring-shaped golden buckle and a teal collar loop.
unlike the famous monsters Nessie's is a lot different from the Scottish myth first things it's not a (Pliosauridae) or (Pinniped) or (Acipenseridae)/(Anguilliformes)/(Somniosus Microcephalus), or (Tullimonstrum) or (Gastropoda) or even a (Annelids), instead he/she is a Sea-Dog.
He/She seems to favor "Ruby" the most out of all the Gilliman's, conferring spending time with Ruby even sleeping up in her bedroom.
I thought you were extinct
I did, but genetic research brought me back
TREY the Explainer are you now part frog and hairless?
genetic research?
more like satanic barn owl fossilization rituals
TREY the Explainer Can I see you in a park run by a Scottish guy?
Using bird DNA or......frog...DNA?
You had all that time to talk about giant worms and yet you don't mention the 3 metre giant Gippsland earthworm, come on man...
Nephila Edulis A giant fucking worm wouldnt be scary. 😂
Speak for yourself, man. You go up lil Alaska-ways and see some of those Bullworms they got, you'll change your tune right-quick, I tell ya whut.
@@jesuschrist8042 invertebrates are 100× scarier than reptiles
Have you seen the spiderpit scene in 2005's KingKong?, the fking lizards are terrefying
Could they survive in water though?
5:52 Giant garden eels? I like it.
I thought they where those seaweed bandits frome super Mario who ware hiding
In the last week sense I found this channel I think that I have seen almost every single video on here. Thanks for all your time that you put into getting real facts onto the internet!
OMG I literally drew this as my interpretation of the Loch ness monster in year 2! (British grades)
Nerd.
Nerd
(But as a compliment because I'm also a nerd)
Ruby Newman a
@@rowanheart8122 same
Yeeeeeaiiiah! Finally some new content from this channel!
;)
When your reply is just a winky face and gets more likes than the comment you are replying to, you know your fans really like you.
TREY the Explainer yes your alive
Perhaps smaller, long necked plesiosaurs could use their necks to catch fish hiding in the shallows. Like how dolphins build up speed to grab small fish hiding in water that's only a few centimetres deep
You saw the bone picture right? smh... it's like humans bending knee backwards like ostriches. Look pal, smaller plesiosaurus couldn't bend their neck like a swan due to reason I wrote lol. Impossible.
It would make them very vulnerable given their neck and spine structure. Short neck plesiosaurs might have done.
@@Aconitum_napellus let's be honest, dolphins are pretty darn buff and have only 3% body fat, also 60% of their body mass is all pure muscle and they weigh 300 kg of pure muscle
I was wondering where you were hiding, looking forward to the next one!
Loch SNES Monster your name is the best for this video
On behalf of all of us Plesiosaur I would like to thank Trey the Explainer for bringing our plight into public awareness. Thank you Trey, we also decided to make you an honorary plesiosaur.
I like the music, glad you put it in the credits at the end. The giant sea-slug was my favorite theory for a long time, the idea of a giant leech is even creepier though!
Can You Do One About The Xenomorphs?
LOL
Gojiramus Primus these videos are based off of mythological creatures. The xenommorph is a movie monster, it has no relation to any other creature.
Brachydios then what about godzilla vid he made duhhh
He did do a video on scientifically plausible aliens though - in which he talks a bit about the Xenomorph too.
Egemen Özçelik I've never seen this video. Ok I'm wrong, i actually wouldn't mind seeing trey talking about the xenomorph
I would love you to do a Mokele Mbembe video
I will definitely ;)
TREY the Explainer Thanks!
I had to look up what that name meant and now I'm excited for it. Please make us proud Trey.
TREY the Explainer I think it's probably a misinterpretation of a forest elephant or another large African mammal. The rhinoceros today is extinct in the Congo basin, but when researchers showed pictures of rhinos to Congolese tribes they identified it as Mokele Mbembe, so maybe the creature is just a memory of when rhinos used to live in the area, that has been altered over the ages
yes yes yes!
Man i love the what if videos, god your back Trey at least for now.
I'm happy you enjoyed 'em :D
Hi Trey, I hope it's not to out of line to ask this but I was wondering what you your opinion is on the future predators predator from Primeval. Wether it's a possible future evolution of bats or whether it makes no sense at all.
Irate Gamer Yea he should do a video about primeval future creatures.
There was only 2 things from the future if I remember right the 2 types of predator and the huge bugs they fight in season 3, or am I missing somthing??
Damn, this is one hell of an undersubscribed channel. +1 sub
I remember you doing a video on the eDNA taken from Loch Ness that showed a ton of eel, so maybe the monster is that, a population of giant or at least very large eels that don’t need to eat much on account of low metabolism for their size, and thus usually hide in the deeper parts of the Loch, only swimming up to the surface to feed on fish. This may be why we don’t see them surface on a regular basis.
Here in Sweden we have a lake called "Storsjön" where we had a "similar" seamonster and it was later shown to be a European catfish
9:46 Bruh that ain't no leech that's a demagorgan
Dinohirudo Nessi.
I am calling that from now on
just found this channel a few days ago and i have never been more knowledgeable in dinosaur and sea creatures.
If we were to consider Nessie as a supernatural creature, I think the most accurate version of the Loch Ness Monster would be the Hungry Shark one. With its teleportation abilities it would explain why Nessie-esque sightings are reported all over the globe as well as why it was so elusive.
Explain the ogopogo, Canadas most famous beast, and also I live by okonagan lake.
It's KoKo *O W L*
The photo you show in 7:33 has been debunked as being a tea pot or some sort of dish as per the guy her shot the pic...cuz people keep using this photo as a reference to Nessie....juss sayin'😶
jmo everyone and their uncles aunts cousin’s grandmothers dog knows that photo was faked.
@@sailorarwen6101 yeah but alot of people wouldnt know what it actually was.
I always thought to me anyway it looked liked a arm with hand and wrist shape head and neck
Allison Holly I actually didn’t know it was faked XD, I suspected it wasn’t really a sea monster but I didn’t know it was just a teapot. I know I’m stupid.
What's the point in having such a long neck when you can't bend it?
That's a great question, and its one that paleontologists have been trying to answer ever since they discovered the rigidness of their necks. Some theories are circulating around that it was used as a display structure, maybe catch fish, or even as a snorkel
Could they be a fully aquatic Tanystropheus evolution?
That would explain the rigid neck.
Also great video Trey
MrHusang23 grabbing prey from under, make your self of look bigger to intimate predators,and to display and possibly attract mates
Thanks!
MrHusang23 sight and the intimidation of I'm bigger than you and you can't hurt me cuz I'm bigger than you
Cool channel and good pacing with concise details. Subscribed.
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also while it's unlikely - for a speculative scenario, the idea of explaining a large mosnter with a seeming lack of a sustainable population by saying they grow past maturity seems kinda clever
like a species that matures at a size of something like 1 meter but if an individual lives long and gets old it can keep growing to sies like 6-10 meters
that could explain why there's a massive lake monster but it's rarely seeen and seems to lack a sustainable population of similar sized monsters
not sure if it would make much sense
but as a fictional solution well... it makes more sense than a magical plesiosaur
I went there And I bought myself a little Nessie (the tiny plush toy)
My Nessie is a ceramic one that has three seperate body sections so that it looks like its partially submerged.
I have a Nessie poke- plush too! **Holds up Lapras plushie**
Ana Luiza Brown I have a pet Leach called Dorris
So did I, I went to a big house which was by the lake
I have a little plush Nessie too :)
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you finally uploaded something
I'm so proud of our monster.....I don't believe that it's a worm because I'm Scottish and anybody else's opinion is wrong 💛
I have always had a facination with nessie.
That' s a pretty dumb thing to say lmao
Your opinion is wrong.
I'm joking
"Oh my god the lochness monster let me take out my potato and take a picture of it!"
Champ is cooler
darn click bait gets me every time, I see an interesting title and then it turns out to be not what I had hoped for.
3:07 It is a highly speculative behaviour, but no one can deny of how awesome it is to imagine a plesiosaur disguised as a wobbegong on the sea floor. Nice video as always ^^
What's the music playing for the majority of the video (for example 3:00)? Credits and description didn't really help...
Great video, by the way. I appreciate and enjoy the amount of work that you invest in your content:)
To Space by SyntheticSoundsStudio
Good video as always, my friend.
Thanks man!
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TREY the Explainer hi Trey and how are you doing?
Will you do any paleoprofiles soon ? And if you are could it be Liopleurodon ? Sorry if I have any grammar errors.
What a unique take! Thanks for this!
The scariest marine thing I've seen was I went to an aquarium and some kind of large black eel was swimming at the top of a large pool tank full of sharks and octopuses and this eel swam straight for me while hissing at me. Was probably about 6 foot long. I was standing at some exhibit nearby where you could see the surface of that pool tank - I guess where they dived in to maintain it. Nothing like a huge Eel with heaps of teeth staring you in the eyes and hissing at you as it charges towards you. Probably why I am terrified of the ocean.
You guys keep talking about if it's real or not...excuse me while I slide on my plesiosaur skin cowboy boots
You wear cowboy boots? Man i have news for you! They never existed as they were depicted. Both a gross, and an ouch.
There's no need to apologize. This video is enough! ;)
_It’s a freaking elasmosaurus. Are you guys blind?!?_
(it’s a joke, the elasmosaurus is just a genus evolved from the plesiosaur)
Tray love ya work Bro, keep doing wot u do. Nuf luv 4rm the UK
Excellent! The purview of your video effectively kills two birds [dinosaurs] with one stone as further analysis into the ongoing case of this cryptid while making this also sound like a PaleoProfile about plesiosaurs! Well done!
I guess we will never know what Nessie truly was. Some mysteries just can't be solved or answered.
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First things first, Trey: the brontosaurine pic was debunked by its creator many years back, so sightings which ascribe to that paradigm can be safely discounted. That frees up the surviving plesiosaurid potential again*. Further, as you well know, some marine reptiles have long underwater endurance; hours in some cases; only surfacing occasionally, when not expending large amounts of energy. I cite all the sea turtles and some salties. Pursuant to that suggestion, I add that a small head (less than 2m long/man-size), surfacing infrequently, might well be missed. As with other animals that survive man's cruel hearted hegemony, such a creature might well avoid the human trafficked parts of the lake; only entering the wider portions if disturbed from its natural lair or lurk. There are many large fish in the loch, perhaps enough to sustain survival of a breeding population of med-size marine reptiles or prehistoric aquatic mammals.
Happily enough, Loch Ness is close, geographically speaking, to the eponymous Moray Firth, where dwell suitably serpentine creatures aplenty, though diminutive, when compared to our imagination's estimation of whatever just scared pooh out of us.
You've already heard the basilosaurid "arguments"/hyperbole; indeed, I use them (basilosaurs) in a fantasy setting, where channels survive between loch and the sea** and are both rife and well known to the appropriate marine inhabitants.
Personally, I believe there is a strong correlation between the moray firth and the coincidental proximity and considerable prevalence of Scotch whiskey in the area.
Of course, there is also considerable peat along the sides of the drop offs. These peat deposits generate methane bubbles underneath, sometimes to the point where reefs of the stuff beak away and float to the surface, tilt, dispersing their buoyant cargo, and slip back into infinity.
* The atmosphere has changed a bit, I believe, since the high Cretaceous. Who knows if paleoreptiles could breathe our new mix . . . unless they evolved along with it.
**These, along with any wayward moray eels, would emerge below the halocline, of course, increasing the difficulty of a supposedly surface dwelling protowhale finding its way into the loch in order to scare early sapiens sapiens silly. I also had to postulate a system of overhanging ledges in which are trapped great bubbles of air from the time of formation of the current loch (early Holocene) for those wayward whales to access, and large caverns to use as submerged lairs. The usage of the loch in this case was for breeding and whelping, not hunting and fishing.
William Cox ok so firstly, the sitings are too infrequent for air breathers, even if it can hold its breath for several hours there are people at the lock all the time on boats and what not so an air breather would find it impossible to only be seen a few times over several years. Also plesiosaurs could only eat things that they could swallow hole mainly because there head is small and fragile and would break quiet easily if it grabbed something like a sturgeon. Also there is only two ways to get into the lock, a canal that was made quiet recently and a shallow river that would make it impossible for an animal the size of a bus to get in. Also there aren't any underwater caves in lock ness so don't bother arguing that and the neck thing is still implausible. Not only is it unnecessary but more energy would be wasted keeping the neck in the same position as it swims because a flexible neck would be pushed by the water and would probably end up curled over the back unless the plesiosaur physically kept its head and neck in place which would cost a lot of energy. And there can't just be one for the legend to last this long yet with so few fish of a correct size in the lake and it's general size there being a population of plesiosaurs is impossible and the lake is only 10,000 years old roughly so they weren't trapped in there either.
Thank you for the nightmare fuel. I'll be using this as inspiration for drawing the Lochness monster. 😂
well at least you didn't kill her off. I guess I can be thankful for that. Great video as usual, Trey.
That extra d in addition at 3:23 xD. Great video on the Loch Ness Monster!
I got a legit question: How do you know the people who spotted Nessie saw King Kong?
He mentioned that a number of them admitted that they had watched it. It's also a landmark film, so it's possible that they were just told about it.
i read about a giant sea creature that exisisted and it looked like a giant sea serpent i don't know what its called becuse i read it in a Book in my grandparents house
(sorry for my bad English im 13 and from Sweden)
An oarfish?
CJCroen1393 no it had more of a shark like apperence
ybbig elttil No worries. Your English is fine.
Basking shark/ 6 gill shark especially the 6 gill shark would fit what you're saying and the spotting of nesse
Legends of Nessies and other aquatic cryptids is what gotten me interested in marine biology and I just recently graduated with a marine bio degree. Watching your Nessie videos kinda ruined my childhood but also answered alot of questions I had about many "evidences". Thanks lol
F.W.Holliday made the point in his book "The Great Orm of Loch Ness" that the creature would most likely be an invertebrate such as a marine worm or sea slug,I fully agree that the least likely classification would be marine reptile,although I also think that a giant conger eel type fish would also fit many descriptions.
loch Ness monster is
A decomposed beluga whale
What if it’s just a really big and really shy swan
Me: But Coelacanths haven't been in the fossil record for 66 million years
Trey: But Coelacanths....
Me: LOL
My idea for nessie is thay she isnt a reptile,but instead a long necked freshwater seal
*lacuserpens pinnipedus* or the loch ness serpent seal
A large carnivorous seal closely related to elephant seals,lacuserpens pinnipedus feed primarily on eels and pike,but bulls or "Loch lords" are known to eat red deer and cattle,snapping at them like crocodiles and dragging them bsck to the water.
Despite being fresh water,they are built for cold temperatures,and are able to hold their breath up to four hours thanks to a slow metabolism and sluggish movements.
The calves have a layer of thick,oily,otter like fur and theyr limbs are thinner,almost resembling short legs, adult females have the signature hydrodynamic almost Plesiosaurus like body, with grey skin and ringed necks, Males or "Lock lords" have an almost blob like form whenever they go onto land,they have black skin and pure white stripes runing doen their bodies,their necks are twice as long as the females,wnd in the msting season (between late spring and esrly summer) develup a dulap to defemd agaisnt rival Loch lord bites,in the mateing season,males also become much more violent,even known to attack humans.
The gestation period is 28-35 months,and mothers only have one calf, unlike other seals and sealions,the lacuserpens pinnipedus gives birth in the water up stream,before leading their calf along the shoreline to Loch Ness,calfs perfer to stay in the shallows and aren't afraid to defend themselves,and have been seen fending off wolves and feral dogs,even killing a few wolves before his mother showed up in ine report.
Lacuserpens pinnipedus calfs make whists and barks to call to their mothers, while adults communicate with growls,snaps,clicks,and and odd humming sound like a low frequency howl.
I once watched a documentary on the history channel (after midnight of course ‘cause everybody knows that’s when all the weird stuff is on) that said that the quartz in Loch Ness allows a time portal to open up that goes to and from plesiosaur times and our times and Nessie is a plesiosaur that just swims through the time portal to say hi and then goes back
What if the Loch Ness monster is a late surviving Titanoboa
XD just kidding!
I thought your intro was vore at first.
"So basically they are fat, deaf, living torpedoes" lol Trey this is why I like watching you so much.
i fucking love your videos man, they're just so (ironically)magical to me
wish you put part 3 in the title, makes it seem standalone