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A number of explanations have been offered to explain a series of supposed sightings of a sea serpent (rắn biển) at Loch Ness, a large, deep, freshwater lake in the Scottish Highlands. Some have hypothesized that the Loch Ness Monster, known as Nessie, was really just a giant eel or possibly an odd shaped log. Others held that Nessie was a prehistoric (thời tiền sử) plesiosaur (thằn lằn đầu rắn, xà đầu long) that somehow survived extinction (tuyệt chủng). In April 2021, another theory was popularized on the internet: The Loch Ness Monster is really just a whale penis (dương vật cá voi).

...While the picture on the left is one of the most famous ones to supposedly show the Loch Ness Monster, and while the picture on the right truly shows a whale penis, we can say with confidence that these objects are not the same.

The picture supposedly showing the Loch Ness Monster is widely known as the “surgeon’s photograph,” as it was reportedly taken by surgeon (bác sĩ phẫu thuật) Robert Kenneth Wilson. This picture was published by the Daily Mail in 1934 and served as a source of speculation about a legendary (huyền thoại) lake-dwelling beast (ác thú) for decades. While several other “sightings” followed the surgeon’s photograph, this picture was revealed to be a hoax (trò chơi khăm) in the 1990s when Christian Spurling, one of the man involved in this hoax, confessed (thú nhận) shortly before his death.

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