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  • It's a Mr T, which in Jewish, just what exactly lies beneath the murky waters of Loch Ness.

  • That's what you actually saw.

  • Yes, the sightings of Nessie stretch back hundreds of years, but as yet no definitive explanation has been found.

  • A team of scientists led by New Zealand's Otago University has been testing water samples on collecting invited mental DNA from all forms of life in the law, including plants, insects, fish and mammals.

  • You basically take a leader or two of water, and you filter it out and in in the stuff that's filtered out will be D n A.

  • And using that DNA, you can end sequence it and, on the basis of the sequence, identify the types of organisms that are present in the water.

  • The world's media gathered at the launch site to hear exactly what this idea of a giant extinct reptile where we didn't find any reptilian DNA.

  • So we don't think that seems very plausible based on the samples and the analysis that we've undertaken.

  • And we also went looking for another idea, which is a giant eel.

  • Well, we don't have the deal's a giant or not, but we certainly found an awful lot of the ordeal, and I gets much more than I expected.

  • But one longtime Nessie hunter is unconvinced by today's news heals in likeness.

  • Personally, I think a 12 year old boy could tell you that there could be some massive eels in there.

  • That could be the explanation.

  • But to say we have found evidence of eels is like thing.

  • We've found evidence of fish in a Scottish loch.

  • Well done.

  • The sense of mystery here that the local remains more than 20% of the DNA phoned was unidentified, meaning the search for Nessie goes on.

  • It's a Mr T, which in ju SJ just what exactly lies beneath the murky water shop.

  • Sightings of Nessie stretch back hundreds of years, but as yet no definitive explanation has been found.

  • Well, we didn't find any reptilian DNA, so we don't think that seems very plausible based on samples and the analysis we've undertaken.

  • But one longtime Nessie hunter is unconvinced by today's news.

  • More than 20% of the DNA phoned was unidentified, meaning the search for Nessie goes on.

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It's a Mr T, which in Jewish, just what exactly lies beneath the murky waters of Loch Ness.

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