What a geneticist thinks so-called Loch Ness monster sighting really was

A couple have captured footage of what they claim is the Loch Ness monster, shot from their holiday cottage overlooking the loch.

But a geneticist who conducted DNA testing on the body of water in 2018 says it’s highly unlikely what they saw was a monster.

Professor Neil Gemmell, geneticist at the University of Otago, tested the environmental DNA — genetic material left behind by organisms as they pass through their environment — in the loch.

“The idea was if there’s some great big creature wandering around Loch Ness it’s probably giving off quite a large amount of DNA and maybe if we went there we’d be able to find evidence of this thing,” he told Neil Mitchell.

“We found over 3000 species … but we didn’t find anything that was particularly mysterious.

“All the biology points to the fact that there isn’t anything particularly big in Loch Ness, there just isn’t enough food.”

But Professor Gemmell does have a few ideas about what the sighting of the so-called monster really was.

Press PLAY below to hear what Professor Gemmell thinks is REALLY in the footage