Some say a monster lurks beneath these waves.

Others say it's a figment of vivid imaginations run wild in the imposing landscape of the Scottish Highlands.

Now these waters may finally tell the tale, thanks to the long awaited results of cutting edge science known as environmental DNA.

If there is a monster in these waters, it cannot escape the building blocks of life.

For more than a year, New Zealand professor Neill Gammel and his team of scientists and researchers have mined the depths of Loch Ness, pulling hundreds of litres of water out and extracting DNA from the liquid.

The results are in.

Professor GMO can now say what creatures tested positive for being in the lock and, more importantly, what he didn't find.

Now we're gonna tell you what we found way.

Find a lot of different species in love this way.

Find the salmon.

We find the attic chair, and a number of other species that we expected to find locked this way also find evidence of a large number off a terrestrial species.

The species that live in and around the locker wouldn't necessarily a thought of them as living in the lock, but they lived near by the look at least include things like Rid Dear and Hedges, weasels and a number of other species.

Neil knows the breathless question on everyone's mind is.

What about the monster?

First, stop the theory that the Loch Ness monster could be a giant catfish.

One popular explanations been a giant catfish species with wels catfish.

It's found in Europe.

It grows to 12 15 feet, and it's a very, very big animal and pretty scary out.

Imagine that turned up next to your boat.

We went looking for evidence of that sequence because the Victorians supposedly had put it into a lock about 100 years ago or so, and we didn't find any evidence of that giant catfish.

Next in the breach is the idea that the creature could be a giant sturgeon, a fish that can grow to enormous size over 12 feet long.

And we did not find evidence of a giant sturgeon, which had been another popular idea that Adrian Shine another's discussed.

Many Nessie hunters have always believed the monster is not a fish but a massive dinosaur APL easiest source, which would fit the descriptions of thousands of eyewitness sightings, is obviously the Jurassic hypothesis.

A notion that there is some sort of scaling reptilian creature, maybe a plesiosaur that stuck and lock.

This has bean there for a long period of time.

There doesn't seem to be any plesiosaur DEA in Loch Ness.

I'm really sorry.

For those of you who have the Nessie plushy toys that looked like a please, there is nothing in the sequence that looks remotely like what we had expected, please.

Yes, Or address a K tripped all secrets to look like a sequence like that should live somewhere in the tree of life between crocodiles and burns.

Clearly, these animals were extinct, but we can reconstruct what those sequences probably looked way Don't find anything like that.

But Neil says there is something in Loch Ness that does fit the description of what many have seen.

Way also explored this idea that maybe a giant he'll explain the monstrous way.

Don't find an awful lot of hell d n a signal in air samples distributed right throughout darkness.

So DNA is actually one of the more common.

Hence get on their answer.

There's an idea that maybe these things called unity ls that never actually breed.

And they just keep getting bigger and bigger.

And it's plausible that you can have feels that could grow toe.

I don't know, 69 12 feet in length.

And so perhaps this idea that there is a large eel off some shape or form people see from time to time, baby dead is one explanation.

Well, at least count this count.

Neil says about 25% of the samples remain unidentified.

The people who want to believe in the monster will go Well, Professor gimbal, You moron.

Clearly that is where the monster lies and you haven't done your job properly.

Well, if people want to go in their own adventure and explore these sequences and I'm sure others will all those data are going to be available alongside our scientific analysis of those.

And people are entitled to make them own interpretations of those data and their own exploration of those data, and they may discover something that we have missed.

That's entirely possible without a definitive answer.

Those who have seen the monster and those who believe.

Still think the's dark deaths hide a secret.

It's a characteristic of sightings that people are so clear in what they've seen.

And if you were to try and say to them, Well, that sounds like it could be a deal.

They will laugh you out of the room.

In my view, I witnesses are honest and accurate in what they see.

I have a feeling it might go on to be a mystery for a long time.

Yet those people who say, well, it's still possible that Nessie is there, that it's a dinosaur or something From that age, they will say it hasn't been ruled out.

I stand out here on the decking, inside my van on my own, and this energy that comes off the place, it feels like it comes out the top of my head in a column of white light.

When I first arrived here, I usedto feel their energy and think, Well, that's because this is the home off one of the world's greatest mysteries way are the most interested in the things which seem imminently solvable.

The things we're on the edge of discovery.