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[[Image:Lochnessmonster.jpg|thumb|225px|The "Surgeon's Photo" of the [[Loch Ness Monster]]. In November 1993, Christian Spurling confessed on his deathbed that he made it from a toy submarine and putty.]]

''Main{{main articles:'' |[[sea monster]], [[lake monster]], [[Loch Ness Monster]]}}

Lake or [[sea monster]] sightings are occasionally explained as plesiosaurs. While the survival of a small, unrecorded breeding colony of plesiosaurs for the 65,000,000 years (with respect to [[evolution]]) since their apparent extinction is unlikely, the discovery of real and even more ancient [[living fossil]]s such as the ''[[Coelacanth]]'', and of previously unknown but enormous deep-sea animals such as the [[giant squid]], have fueled imaginations.