The legend of a monster dates back to the Middle Ages when Irish monk St Columba is said to have encountered a creature in ...

The Nessie Contingency Plan, drawn up by NatureScot, is a real guide for what to do if the monster ever appears ...

A recent live webcam capture near the Clansman Hotel in Scotland has reignited interest in the legendary Loch Ness Monster, ...

from Irish monk Saint Columba banishing a sea serpent from the River Ness in the sixth century, to English occultist Aleister Crowley’s devilish antics at Boleskine House on the loch’s ...

The Loch Ness Monster's existence is 'plausible ... missionary St Columba when he came across a giant beast in the River Ness. But no one has ever come up with a satisfactory explanation for ...

Believers in the Loch Ness monster have long believed that the ... compares the creatures to river dolphins and the fossils found include bones and teeth from ten-foot long adults.

In 565 C.E., according to an early biography of Columba, the saint and his companions encountered a “water beast” in the River Ness, which flows from Loch Ness. The massive creature had already ...

The Loch Ness monster — dubbed “Nessie” — is ... “What amazes me is that the ancient Moroccan river contained so many carnivores all living alongside each other,” said co-author ...

The difference between saltwater and freshwater has really held up a lot of the possibility of the Loch Ness monster being real. Now that we’ve discovered evidence of plesiosaurs in a river ...

Some once believed the reptile could be the Loch Ness monster. An ocean-dwelling ... the plesiosaur in a 100-million-year-old freshwater river system. The fossils, which include teeth and ...

The monster then returned to attack another swimmer in the River Ness, which flows from Loch Ness. St. Columba made the sign of the cross, causing the beast to swim away, the biography said.