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Re: Loch Ness

To: Dinosaur@usc.edu
Subject: Re: Loch Ness
From: Gautam Majumdar <gautam@majumdar.demon.co.uk>
Date: Mon, 1 Feb 1999 19:08:39 +0000
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dinosaur@museum.gla.ac.uk wrote
>
>The likely beast is a sturgeon which can grow (if I am correct) to 
>lengths of over 100ft in some Russian rivers.  Any biologists' 
>comment?

Largest Russian Sturgeon on record was a 7.3 m (24 feet) female specimen
taken in the estuary of Volga in 1827.

Source : Guinness Book of Animal Records, 1995, page 195

Gautam Majumdar                 gautam@majumdar.demon.co.uk

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