Who needs an osteologist? (Installment 39, Celebrity Edition!)

Maybe you've seen this, since it's now all over even the American news this morning? Some skeletal and intestinal remains along the shores of Loch Ness...

Yes, that Loch Ness.

It is, of course, a prank.  And a funny one.  But not a very anatomically correct one.  

Now, I'm not a zooarchaeologist, or a paleontologist, or a cryptozoologist, so take this opinion for what it is... but that looks like a pig skull (going based on the teeth here), three vertebral columns stuck together as if one long neck, probably some cow legs, a bunch of rib cages stuck together (again, probably cow judging by the size and by people's ability to get it easily).  And then a whole bunch of intestines and other offal.

If you have a better idea of what those animal bones are, do feel free to comment.

What would the Loch Ness Monster's actual skeleton look like, though, you ask?  I imagine, since it's supposed to be some sort of holdover from past epochs, it'd look more like a dinosaur -- maybe a diplodocus or, even better, the semi-aquatic nothosaurus that's been found all over Europe and Asia.

Diplodocus

Nothosaurus

   

 So while I appreciate the elaborate nature of this prank, the frankenstein quality of the Nessie "skeleton" could have been better staged.

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Previous Installments of Who needs an osteologist?

• Giant Screen Films/IMAX needs an osteologist.
• The National Museum in Copenhagen and the Viking Ship Museum in Oslo need an osteologist.
• The American Anthropological Association needs an osteologist.
• Greensboro Science Center needs an osteologist.
• Scholastic News needs an osteologist.
• From Darkness on the BBC needs an osteologist.
• The Iraqi National Museum needs an osteologist.
• Halloween stores need an osteologist.
• The New York Times needs an osteologist.
• Morgan's Cove needs an osteologist.
• Dunstable Baptist Church needs an osteologist.
• Once again, Bones needs an osteologist.
• Tampa Bay History Center needs an osteologist.
• The Archaeological Museum of the Castle of Santo Anton needs an osteologist.
• The Gruppo Archeologico della Val Nure needs an osteologist.
• Polish archaeologists at the site of Kamien Pomorski need an osteologist.
• The South Florida Science Center and Aquarium needs an osteologist.
• GitHub needs an osteologist.
• The Telegraph needs an osteologist.
• University Museum in Chieti-Pescara needs an osteologist.
• NKP Salve Institute of Medical Sciences needs an osteologist.
• Huffington Post and the Mars Rover need an osteologist.
• PBS and Richard III need an osteologist.
• Abbot House Museum needs an osteologist.
• The Zanjan Museum needs an osteologist.
• National Geographic Channel's "Nazi War Diggers" needs an osteologist.
• BBC/NOVA needs an osteologist.
• The Penn Museum needs an osteologist.
• National Geographic needs an osteologist.
• Acura needs an osteologist.
• The "African" woman in Fairford, England, needs an osteologist.
• Museo delle Grotte needs an osteologist.
• Either NPR or Yale needs an osteologist.
• Yorkshire Museum needs an osteologist.
• Staffordshire University needs an osteologist.
• And, of course, Bones needs an osteologist.