Whether or not the huge creature known as the Loch Ness monster
is a living dinosaur, we DO know that millions of years ago,
huge carnivorous reptiles resembling Nessie lived in Australia.
If the current Nessie isn't real, we may soon be able to
recreate her: A scientific breakthrough in DNA will make it
possible for creatures that have been extinct since the Ice Age
30,000 years ago to roam the earth again?like Nessie does now?
BBC news quotes researcher Australian Benjamin Kear as saying,
"Imagine a compact body with four flippers, a reasonably long
neck, small head and short tail, much like a reptilian seal."
This creature grew to be around 16 feet long and had incredibly
sharp teeth, so maybe we should hope that today's Nessie IS a
myth. Mark Henderson writes in the London Times that the woolly
mammoth, which has been extinct for a much shorter time (around
30,000 years), could roam the earth once more if DNA researchers
can use frozen sperm found inside long dead mammoths to produce
offspring in surrogat