The Prince of Wales asked a research scientist if she could find the Loch Ness -Monster, insistently that it was what “everyone” wanted to know.
The prince showed a previously unknown interest in the existence of the mythical Scottish being during a visit on Wednesday to Naturemetrics, a DNA research organization that was a finalist from 2024 in the Earthshot prize that he founded.
He seemed fascinated by the work of the organization that Environment -DNA (Edna) from water, air or soil samples extraht.
The prince tried his hand when immersing the pond and was delighted to get the chance to spray cloudy pond water on the media, and stated: “This is the best day of my life.”
As examples of the company's work was shown, the Prince Dr. asked. Kat Bruce, the founder: 'Everyone will want to know. Does this mean that you can find the Loch Ness monster? “
The Prince of Wales was informed by Dr. Kat Bruce about the work of her company around the world – Richard Pohle/The Times/Pa Wire
Dr. Bruce told him that despite countless efforts, only Eels was discovered in the Loch.
“People tried,” she said. “People came from New -Zealand to try and they took about 500 Edna monsters and no, they said they had found eel.
“It might be a very big eel, but it felt like it was holding straws a bit. The only thing they had to find was a non -created piece of Edna and they could have had a story. “
Dr. Bruce admitted that Naturemetrics had been asked to use their technology to find “all kinds” – including the Yeti and Bigfoot, the gigantic hairy beings who are reportedly observed in the Himalayas and North America respectively.
De Prince visited the company, based in Guildford, Surrey, to find out more about its work to analyze environmental data to offer customers extensive maps of life in a forest, more or the air.
The prince joined scientists in the Naturemetrics lab to extract DNA from a monster -Richard Pohle/The Times/PA wire
He joined a group of school children who gathered DNA samples to identify the local animals in the wild and bacteria in a nearby lake.
Asked to expel the surplus water, Dr. Bruce before he shot from his syringe in the direction of journalists. The prince made three attempts before he joked: “Oh almost, almost … This is the best day of my life – very nice.”
Because he was shown a DNA extraction machine that produces the DNA code that can identify everything, from bacteria to a blue whale, he told Dimple Patel, the Naturemetrics Chief Executive: “So much of what the environmental money needs now , are data.
“And you have the opportunity to tell us what there is. There is a lot of guesswork, there is many meticulous volunteers and science in this, but actually we have to understand larger, large -scale projects in every area. “
