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It's actually quite unlike anything we've ever seen before. It's actually quite unlike anything we've ever seen before.

A giant hairy creature, part 8, part mad. In Larkness, a 24-mile long bottomless lake in the highlands of Scotland.

It's a creature known as the Loch Ness Monster. Monster Talk.

Here's the thing I can't prove, but also feels unassailable.

Sea monsters have been a part of human storytelling for as long as humans have taken to the oceans and crafted their own making.

I mean, monsters come from fear and uncertainty, and three-quarters of our planet is covered in a layer of opacity that begs for exploration,

definitely supports hidden life, provides us with food, and often lies between us in vital destinations.

So of course, we fill those endless waves with monsters. But which of them are real, and which

are better suited to the margins of a medieval illustrated map? Out of centuries of stories,

some have turned out to be based on real animals, but with more recent reports, say from the past 200 years or so, how much of what we think we know about these cases actually holds up when you go back to the original source material?

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