00:00Scientists stopped looking for the monster and started testing the water instead.
00:05In 2018, a team led by Professor Neil Janel collected around 250 samples from Loch Ness
00:12and sequenced every trace of DNA in them.
00:15The results announced in 2019 were a shock.
00:19No reptile DNA, no Epplesiosaur, no giant catfish, no sturgeon, no shark.
00:26But one animal showed up almost everywhere they looked, eels.
00:30The loch is full of them.
00:31A giant eel remains possible, Jemmel said, but the DNA cannot show size, and no giant eel
00:39has ever been proven.
00:40So what did all those witnesses really see?
00:43Well, let us know about the book over the years,
00:43and we were in the States.
00:43Yeah, he was going to be here,
