The Psychological Benefits of Believing in the Loch Ness Monster
Why we want to believe
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3 min readSep 7, 2019
If the Loch Ness monster is anything at all, new research argues, it’s probably just a really big eel.
A team of scientists analyzed the DNA found in hundreds of water samples collected from Scotland’s Loch Ness to piece together a picture of the lake’s animal life. The team, led by Neil…