Chinese scientists search for ‘lake monsters’
Tuesday, April 18th, 2006BEIJING—Chinese scientists will launch an expedition next month to search for fabled “lake monsters” in northwest China’s Xinjiang region, state media said Saturday.
For hundreds of years there have been rumors in Xinjiang’s Altay Prefecture that mysterious monsters live in the prefecture’s Kanasi Lake, devouring livestock, the Xinhua news agency said.
As horses, cattle or sheep went missing near the lake every year, the legend grew.
In 1985, teachers and students from the Xinjiang University Department of Biology discovered that dozens of huge red fish, each 10 to 15 meters (33 to 49.5 feet) long and weighing more than four tons, lived in the lake.
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