Once again, after much thought, a university scientist, this one in Scotland says that was no ivory bill woodpecker that people claim to have seen in Arkansas in 2004. After his announcement, geneticist J. Martin Collinson headed out to Loch Ness to prove the exisitence of the Nessie the monster. 

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