Lernie the Loch Ness Monster

When you think of the Loch Ness monster, you’re probably picturing a grainy photograph from the 1930s featuring a big back and spindly neck emerging from the water. But the first recorded sighting of the monster is actually from 564 CE, recorded in the writings of St. Columbia. The photo from 1934 has led many to speculate that this water-faring cryptid may actually be a plesiosaurus, a kind of aquatic dinosaur that (supposedly) went extinct some 65 million years ago. Is Lernie trapped outside of time, the last in the line of an otherwise extinct species? Are they a single creature or does Lernie have a family? (What about Nessie, after all?) I’ve asked, but Lernie won’t tell me. Perhaps you’ll have better luck.