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"Nessie"
Popular affectionate name for the Loch Ness monster, who is said to reside in a lake in northern Scotland. In an article in Nature titled "Naming the Loch Ness Monster," naturalist Sir Peter Scott and Robert Rines bestowed the scientific name Nessiteras rhombopteryx. They felt obliged to do this following modern photographic evidence suggesting the reality of the monster, since a British Act of Parliament (1975) requires a scientific name for any rare species of animal qualifying for conservation. Some newspapers gleefully pointed out that this scientific name may be converted to the anagram "Monster Hoax by Sir Peter."
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