A writer on the Frontiers of Zoology blog, Dale Drinnon weighed in on sea serpents, lake monsters and flying cryptids alike. In 2013 he took the Castilian sea serpent off St Helena as real, but suggested its 200 and 500 foot lengths came from counting nearby whales as part of the animal. He placed it among Heuvelmans' merhorses. For the 1956 kongamato sighting at Fort Rosebery, he argued the shoebill is too large to fit the better reports. He proposed alligator gar for the 1980 Altamaha-ha sighting at Smith Lake. The Canvey Island Monster he filed as a non-cryptid.
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Pro earlyBlogger at Frontiers of Zoology, proposed the whales-as-body explanation
Pro earlyFortean Zoology blogger who proposed a large conger eel gripping the whale's flipper (2010)
Pro earlyFrontiers of Zoology blogger who analysed the account (2011)
Pro earlyBlogger who proposed a large siamang with hair loss (2011)
Pro earlyFrontiers of Zoology writer who classed it as a non-cryptid
Pro earlyFrontiers of Zoology blogger who argued the shoebill is too large
Pro earlyCryptozoology blogger who proposed a feral or wild boar
Pro earlyBlogger whose 2010 retelling gives the fullest online account
Pro earlyFrontiers of Zoology blogger who discussed the case in 2011
Pro earlyResearcher (Frontiers of Zoology) who dated the sighting to December 1980 and proposed alligator gar
Pro earlyWriter; compared Gambo with the Ambon sea serpent
Pro earlyCryptozoology writer; proposed relic orangutans behind Philippine ape-men