The Loch Ness monster may be a real thing, according to a team of scientists from Otago University in New Zealand. They tested DNA from the Scottish lake to find out which species might live or have ever lived in it. According to a report in The New York Daily News, they found a very large amount of DNA from eels. Yes, the Loch Ness monster might just be a really humongous eel. The researchers, being scientists, won’t say it is and won’t say it isn’t. The legend of the monster in the lake has been around since the sixth century.