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The Loch Ness monster: a modern history
Charles Paxton, 2022. The Conversation, 12 May 2022.
A St Andrews statistician who has catalogued the reports: first modern reports in 1930, more from April 1933; George Spicer's land sighting of August 1933 prompted the reptile and plesiosaur image; more than 85 published theories; 1,452 distinct encounters known to him, of which about 20 per cent mention a neck and under 1 per cent describe a reptilian or scaly animal. Concludes the monster has many identities and is "a function of human psychology rather than nature".
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The quantitative description of the sighting record by its main analyst.
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Paxton, C. (2022). The Loch Ness monster: a modern history. The Conversation, 12 May 2022. https://doi.org/10.64628/AB.cygdpr33c
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