Post by MCDemuth on May 24, 2018 17:03:30 GMT
HUNTING NESSIE: SCIENTISTS TO SEARCH FOR DNA OF LOCH NESS MONSTER
As noted by Professor Gemmell, when sea creatures move in the water, they leave traces of DNA behind, coming from their skin, feathers, scales, and urine.
As of April 2018, an international group of scientists led by University of Otago geneticist Neil Gemmell has started collecting water samples from the freshwater lake located in the Scottish highlands. The teams aim to take around 300 samples of water from various points across the Loch.
In June of 2018, experts will commence extracting the DNA from the samples, hoping to discover among them, Nessie’s genetic fingerprint. The samples will be analyzed by laboratories in laboratories in France, Denmark, New Zealand and Australia. The samples will be sequenced by technology originally created for the human genome project.
Then, scientists will compare the DNA results to the database of known species. And by the end of the year, we should have an answer whether or not the Loch Ness Monster is real.
If scientists fail to find Nessie, they gain unprecedented and valuable ecological data.
“I’m going into this thinking it’s unlikely there is a monster, but I want to test that hypothesis,” Gemmell said. “What we’ll get is a really nice survey of the biodiversity of the Loch Ness.”
www.ancient-code.com/hunting-nessie-scientists-to-search-for-dna-of-loch-ness-monster/
Interesting Approach...
Unfortunately... I think... the best we can hope for, is that the results will show at least one unknown species having been in the Loch...
And, while that might add support to the possibility that Nessie is real...
That doesn't mean that the DNA results will point to that creature as being anything like Nessie.
(That DNA could come from "Bigfoot" for all we know...)
Still, discovering any new species, no matter what it turns out to be, would be exciting.
