*Ø* Blogmanac | Loch Ness discovery


"London: Traces of a 150-million-year-old water-dwelling dinosaur - believed to have been a 10.5 metre-long plesiosaur - have been found on the banks of Scotland's Loch Ness.

"The Jurassic-era fossil of four perfectly-preserved vertebrae was found by a man who plucked it from shallow water on the bank of the loch.

"Gerald McSorley, 67, turned it over to the National Museum of Scotland, who are conducting tests on the rare find, the first of its kind in Scotland for more than a century.

"However, scientists say the bones are definitely not those of Nessie, the lake's legendary monster."

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*Ø* Blogmanac | China's 'Loch Ness Monster' resurfaces
"China's legendary 'Lake Tianchi Monster' has surfaced anew, with local officials reporting sightings of as many as 20 of the mysterious and unidentified creatures in a lake near North Korea.

"Sightings of the strange beast - China's version of the 'Loch Ness Monster' - date back more than a century, but like Scotland's famed "Nessie" reports vary and remain unconfirmed.

"On the morning of July 11, several local government cadres caught sight of a school of mysterious creatures swimming through the lake in the Changbai mountains, in northeastern Jilin province, the Beijing Youth Daily said."
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