Have you heard about the Loch Ness（尼斯湖）monster（怪物）？ It?is called Nessie. Some people say it eats people. Others say its a?friendly dinosaur（恐龍）. What does the monster look like？ What is it，?really？ Lets find more about the Loch Ness monster together.

Nessies home水怪故鄉(xiāng)

Nessie lives in Loch Ness in Scotland（蘇格蘭）， UK.“Loch”?means“l(fā)ake”in the old Scottish language（古蘇格蘭語）. Loch Ness?is a long， deep lake. It is around 36 km long and 1，206 km deep. The?bottom of the lake is as flat（平坦的）as a soccer field（足球場）. The?lake never freezes（ 結(jié)冰）. Its water runs across Scotland from?southwest（西南）to northeast（東北）.

What does Nessie look like？水怪長什么樣？

We can only picture Nessie from peoples words.?It has a long neck. But its head is small. It has a huge?hump（駝峰）behind its neck.

Some people say its gray， but others say its?green. Local（ 當(dāng)?shù)氐模?people believe Nessie is?friendly， as long as people dont disturb（打擾）it.

The picture of the Loch Ness monster有人拍到尼斯湖水怪的照片了？

This picture came out in 1934. It?brought peoples attention（注意）from?all over the world to Nessie. Since then，?the lake became a tourist attraction（旅游勝地）. But 60 years later， people find?out this picture is just a toy submarine（潛水艇玩具）.

Is it a living dinosaur？尼斯湖水怪真的是恐龍嗎？

Put peoples words about Nessie together， you will find it really looks like a?dinosaur. Now more and more people believe its a plesiosaur（ 蛇頸龍）.?Plesiosaurs are relatives（親戚）of dinosaurs. They also have long necks， small?heads and they live in the water. The only problem is plesiosaurs went extinct（滅絕的）65 million（百萬）years ago. Or did they？

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