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Naming the Loch Ness monster
Peter Scott, Robert Rines, 1975. Nature 258: 466–468.
The naturalist Peter Scott and the lawyer and inventor Robert Rines, of the Academy of Applied Science, gave the animal they believed their underwater photographs showed a scientific name, Nessiteras rhombopteryx.
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The high point of scientific engagement with the monster, based on the 1972 and 1975 underwater photographs.
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Scott, P., & Rines, R. (1975). Naming the Loch Ness monster. Nature 258: 466–468. https://doi.org/10.1038/258466a0
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Scott, Peter and Robert Rines. “Naming the Loch Ness monster.” Nature 258: 466–468 (1975). https://doi.org/10.1038/258466a0.