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Nessie Unmasked? Loch Ness Monster Might Be Giant Eel

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   Scotland's fabled Loch Ness Monster might most likely be a giant eel, a
   study of samples of DNA in the lake's murky waters has found.

   Neil Gemmell, a geneticist from the University of Otago in New Zealand,
   led the study that tried to catalog all living species in the lake by
   extracting DNA from water samples.

   "Eels are very plentiful in the loch system -- every single sampling
   site that we went to pretty much had eels and the sheer volume of it
   was a bit of a surprise," Gemmell said.

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