Investigating Lake Baikal

Siberia's Lake Baikal has a number of intriguing monster legends attached to it, as this article shows. It's also the world's deepest lake. And - as this new story demonstrates - scientists are about to descend to the absolute depths of the lake to learn more about its unique eco-system. It will be interesting to see if they learn much more too - and of a decidedly monstrous nature!