Monsters real and not

[GSP1954@aol.com]

Although the Discovery Channel program on the Loch Ness monster made some 
scientific boo-boos, in the end it was pretty good because it firmly concluded 
that there in no strange creature in the lake and explained why. One reason is 
because if there was some mammal or reptile in the loch they would have to 
frequently surface to breath and therefore would be obvious to all. Indeed if 
they 
are primitive whales as some argue they would have been hunted out long ago. 
Even reptiles would have to surface often because in order to remain 
reasonably warm in cold water they would have to be very active like 
leatherbacks. 

Concerning marine reptiles breathing, the tiny nosed plesiosaurs did not 
breath through the nostrils. Penquins and cormorants have nearly or entirely 
closed nostrils and breath through their mouths. 

G Paul