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Like other aquatic animals, according to the Bible plesiosaurs were not taken aboard the [[Noah's Ark|Ark]] during the [[Great Flood]].<ref>[http://www.answersingenesis.org/Home/Area/AnswersBook/fish14.asp "How did freshwater and saltwater fish survive the Flood?"], Answers in Genesis</ref> Because of this, some creation researchers believe that not all of them perished in the Flood and that populations survive to this day,<ref name="tj12.3"/> hidden beneath the icy waters of seas and deep lakes. The most often cited evidences for this theory are the many modern sightings around the globe of creatures that fit the description of a plesiosaur, the most famous of which have been reported at [[Loch Ness]], [[Scotland]] (the so-called "Loch Ness Monster" or "Nessie") and [[Lake Okanagan]] in [[British Columbia]] (known as "Ogopogo").

Like other aquatic animals, according to the Bible plesiosaurs were not taken aboard the [[Noah's Ark|Ark]] during the [[Great Flood]].<ref>[http://www.answersingenesis.org/Home/Area/AnswersBook/fish14.asp "How did freshwater and saltwater fish survive the Flood?"], Answers in Genesis</ref> Because of this, some creation researchers believe that not all of them perished in the Flood and that populations survive to this day,<ref name="tj12.3"/> hidden beneath the icy waters of seas and deep lakes. The most often cited evidences for this theory are the many modern sightings around the globe of creatures that fit the description of a plesiosaur, the most famous of which have been reported at [[Loch Ness]], [[Scotland]] (the so-called "Loch Ness Monster" or "Nessie") and [[Lake Okanagan]] in [[British Columbia]] (known as "Ogopogo").

There was also a reputed plesiosaur carcass<ref name="tj12.3"/> dredged up by the Japanese fishing trawler ''Zuiyo Maru'' near [[New Zealand]] in 1977, but many researchers believe it was the remains of a [[basking shark]].<ref>[http://www.creationontheweb.com/content/view/1684/ Letting rotting sharks lie] ''Journal of Creation'' 13(2) 83–87, Nov. 1999.</ref><ref>[http://www.creationontheweb.com/content/view/4737 A ‘tail’ of many monsters] ''Journal of Creation'' 19(2) 74–75, Aug. 2005.</ref><ref>[http://www.creationontheweb.com/content/view/4752/ Parkie: a new ‘pseudoplesiosaur’ washed up on the Nova Scotia coast] ''Journal of Creation'' 19(2) 119–118, Aug. 2005.</ref>

There was also a reputed plesiosaur carcass<ref name="tj12.3"/> dredged up by the Japanese fishing trawler ''Zuiyo Maru'' near [[New Zealand]] in 1977, but many researchers believe it was the remains of a [[basking shark]].<ref>[http://www.creationontheweb.com/content/view/1684/ Letting rotting sharks lie] ''Journal of Creation'' 13(2) 83–87, Nov. 1999.</ref><ref>[http://www.creationontheweb.com/content/view/4737 A ‘tail’ of many monsters] ''Journal of Creation'' 19(2) 74–75, Aug. 2005.</ref><ref>[http://www.creationontheweb.com/content/view/4752/ Parkie: a new ‘pseudoplesiosaur’ washed up on the Nova Scotia coast] ''Journal of Creation'' 19(2) 119–118, Aug. 2005.</ref>  Close inspection of the original Japanese scientific report reveals unanimous eyewitness testimony that the cryptid had a pair of upper fins. This observation, if not refuted, disproves a shark identification. <ref>[http://www.creationresearch.org/crsq/articles/38/38_1/Cryptid.htm "New Zuiyo Maru Cryptid Observations"], Creation Research Society Quarterly</ref>  

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