Sightings of 'sea monsters' were directly influenced by the discovery of marine vertebrate fossils, like of ichthyosaurs and plesiosaurs, in the 19th century.
there was a notable decline in reports where the body was described as serpent or eel-like. Especially after 1850, the classic sea serpent is replaced by the long-necked sea serpent featuring four or more fins and a prominent neck, a feature visible in the skeletons of mosasaurs and especially plesiosaurs. Fossil exhibitions and textbooks with illustrations of extinct animals were quite popular at the time and popularized the erroneous image of swan-necked plesiosaurs.
This trend culminates in the 20th century, like in the case of the famous Loch Ness monster sighting of 1933, explained by contemporary newspapers as a
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