Word: loch
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...Loch Ness contains at most 30 tons of fish, nowhere near enough to support the presumably voracious appetite of the legendary Loch Ness monster, according to a comprehensive study of Loch Ness to be published in an upcoming issue of the Scottish Naturalist. The most likely explanation for the spate of sightings of the beast that began in 1868, says the study, is the presence in the lake of a school of sturgeon. Sturgeon can weigh up to 500 lbs.; their long snouts might be mistaken for monstrous necks, and their dorsal fins could appear to be humps...
Some of the rides are almost mystical. In Virtual Adventures, by Iwerks Entertainment, you glide underwater to rescue rare eggs hatched by a benevolent Loch Ness creature. The other games are a mix of Captain Kirk and Beavis and Butt-head; this one is Barney...
Peabody Professor of American Archaeology and Ethnology Stephen Williams, who teaches Anthropology 139, "Fantastic Archaeology: Where the Truth Lies," promises to make his students more skeptical. Williams says he will teach students how to tell a hoax from genuine findings during their studies of Big Foot and the Loch Ness Monster...