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Yes. The Water Horse is a 1990 children's novel by English author Dick King-Smith. It was adapted for the screen by American screenwriter Robert Nelson Jacobs.

The movie is basically told in flashback--in a pub story told by old Angus to two tourists. At the start of the story, young Angus finds an egg for the water horse and is told that a water horse lays only one egg in its life--and when that egg hatches, the water horse dies. At the end of the movie, another kid has found an egg. The obvious conclusion is that the new egg was laid by the water horse, who has died or gone off to die.

Yes. Young Angus named him "Crusoe" after Robinson Crusoe.