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A final argument against the plesiosaur theory is that the Loch itself formed only 10 - 12 thousand years ago during the [[Wisconsin glaciation|last ice age]]. Believers respond by saying that there is a possibility that a small colony of plesiosaurs could have gotten accidentally land-locked after the Ice Age.
According to the [[Sweden|Swedish]] [[natural history|naturalist]] and author [[Bengt Sjögren]] (1980), the present day belief in [[lake monster]]s in for example Loch Ness, is associated with the old legends of [[kelpie]]s. Sjögren claims that the accounts of lake-monsters have changed during history. Older reports often talk about horse-like appearances, but more modern reports often have more reptile and dinosaur-like-appearances, and Bengt Sjögren concludes that the legends of kelpies evolved into the present day legends of lake-monsters where descriptions of the monsters changed to a more "realistic" and "modern" version, reflecting greater awareness of, and interest in, [[dinosaur]]s and plesiosaurs. This idea, would need to change the kelpie from a creature of [[folklore]] to one of seeming reality. Believers argue that older witnesses compared it to what they knew, and since they had never heard of plesiosaurs they
There are some people who think that the monster will never be proven to exist, because they believe that one day the monster may become [[extinction|extinct]] before it is accepted by science.{{fact}}
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