NO LOCH NESS MONSTER
SCIENCE AND SUPERSTITION (Special—By Air Mall) LONDON, June 3. Professor Charles O'Donoghue of Edinburgh University, Zoology Department who has made a lifelong study of monsters declared emphatically this week that there was no Loch Ness Monster. “All descriptions say it is a reptile,” he continued; “all reptiles must come on land to breed. Obviously a 50 or 50 foot long monster cannot wander about the country leaving no tracks. “If it laid an egg the egg would be big enough to contain five gallons of milk. Yet eggs and egg-shells remain undetected. “Ocean monsters are a different matter. Recently off the coast of South Africa, a fish thought to be extinct lotover 50 million years, was hauled up alive in a net. But most of the monsters we hear about are just figments of the imagination."
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLVI, Issue 21377, 21 June 1939, Page 8
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140NO LOCH NESS MONSTER Timaru Herald, Volume CXLVI, Issue 21377, 21 June 1939, Page 8
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