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Reporter films China's own Loch Ness monster
Beijing (AFP) Sept 9, 2007 A television reporter claims to have discovered China's answer to the Loch Ness monster, state press reported Sunday. Local journalist Zhuo Yongsheng shot footage of six "seal-like" creatures in the northeastern Tianchi lake, which local legend has long said is home to Loch Ness-style monsters. "They could swim as fast as yachts and at times they would all disappear in the water," the Xinhua news agency quoted Zhuo as saying. "Their fins, or maybe wings, were longer than their bodies." Legend says that China's own version of Scotland's legendary monster has dwelled in the murky bottom of the volcanic lake for over a century. The original "Nessie" dates back to the seventh century, when a water beast is said to have appeared before Saint Columba, the founder of Christianity in Scotland in the Highland lake's depths. Zhuo said he had not previously believed in the lake monster legend, "but I believed my own eyes." However, scientists dismissed the reports, saying the lake was too cold for life. Volcanic eruptions would also make life extremely hazardous for any animal making its home there, they said. Community Email This Article Comment On This Article Related Links Darwin Today At TerraDaily.com
Large Asteroid Breakup Likely Source Of Mass Extinction Impact 65 Million Years Ago
Boulder CO (SPX) Sep 07, 2007The impactor believed to have wiped out the dinosaurs and other life forms on Earth some 65 million years ago has been traced back to a breakup event in the main asteroid belt. A joint U.S.-Czech team from Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) and Charles University in Prague suggests that the parent object of asteroid (298) Baptistina disrupted when it was hit by another large asteroid, creating numerous large fragments that would later create the Chicxulub crater on the Yucatan Peninsula as well as the prominent Tycho crater found on the Moon. |
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