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...suggested the "head" was that of a Highland steer that had drowned in the lake. One skeptic, interviewed on British television, speculated that the head was a shot of a scuba diver wearing his breathing apparatus backward. A London paper noted that Nessie's proposed scientific name, Nessiteras rhombopteryx, is an anagram for "monster hoax by Sir Peter S."-a possible reference to Nessie Supporter Sir Peter Scott, who co-authored the Nature article with Rines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Nessie's Return | 1/12/1976 | See Source »

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