From Ananova today (July 3)
A former Natural History Museum employee claims
to have captured a dinosaur on film swimming off
the coast of Cornwall.
John Holmes claims he filmed the legendary
Cornish beast Morgawr three years ago in Gerrans
Bay, off the Roseland Peninsula.
But he says he has only just released the footage
for fear of being ridiculed.
The 49-year-old believes the creature is a
plesiosaur - a long necked, marine reptile with four
paddle-like limbs thought to have died 65 million
years ago.
Mr Holmes, of Sticker near St Austell, told the
Western Morning News: "My pet theory is that it was
a living fossil. I think that there is a group of
plesiosaurs going around in the oceans of the
world. All around Britain there have been sightings
of sea serpents."
The footage apparently shows the head of a
2.2-metre long creature, rising about one metre
above the water.
Mr Holmes worked as a higher scientific officer at
the Natural History Museum for 19 years and says
he has shown the footage to experts over the past
year and they are all baffled by the creature's
identity.
He added: "What caught my attention was the
bizarre movement out to sea. The hairs on the back
of my neck stood up. It wasn't gargantuan, but big
enough to rule out marine birds."
Sightings of Morgawr, Cornish for 'Sea Giant', have
been reported since the early 1970s, and some say
for more than 100 years.
In May, a Falmouth fisherman and St Piran patrol
boatman, claimed to have seen the creature in
separate incidents on the same day. |
