A zoologist and palaeontologist who writes at Tetrapod Zoology, Darren Naish turns up across the archive as a careful voice in cryptid debates. On the Valhalla sea serpent of 1905, he calls it a great classic of the field. On the Zuiyō Maru carcass, his verdict came in 2020. The evidence for a basking shark, he wrote, is very strong. He judged in 2019 that Tim Dinsdale's Loch Ness film almost certainly does not show a monster. He also noted that Roger Patterson drew a scene from William Roe's 1955 account a year before Bluff Creek, and that the scene is just about identical to the one Patterson filmed there.
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Pro earlyZoologist who summarised Fleming's account and the uncertainty over the door marks on Tetrapod Zoology
Pro earlyZoologist whose Tetrapod Zoology blog reviewed Shine's whale interpretation
Pro earlyPalaeontologist (Southampton), co-author; wrote about the specimen on Tetrapod Zoology
Palaeontologist and writer who treats the case as a classic sea-serpent report
Palaeontologist who calls the account a total fabrication
Pro earlyZoologist who identified the carcass as a rotting whale
Palaeontologist who identified the carcass in the photographs as a decomposed whale, a globster
Pro earlyZoologist and author who identified the carcass as a globster
Pro earlyPalaeozoologist who re-examined the case on Tetrapod Zoology (2008, 2021)
Pro earlyZoologist who critiqued the living-sauropod picture of mokele-mbembe
Zoologist who critiqued the Cadborosaurus willsi description
Palaeontologist and blogger who suggested an otter or seal, exaggerated over time
Pro earlyZoologist commenting on Caddy reports in general
Pro earlyZoologist who reviewed the account and suggested a black bear
Pro earlyZoologist who reviewed the Cadborosaurus carcasses
Pro earlyTetrapod Zoology writer who analysed the Dogman legend
Pro earlyPalaeontologist and critic, proposed a decomposed white sturgeon
Pro earlyZoologist and Scientific American writer who questioned the photograph
Zoologist who linked Roe's account to Patterson's film
Pro earlyZoologist and writer who reviewed the case in 2001 and 2017
Pro earlyZoologist who retold the case on Tetrapod Zoology in 2009
Zoologist who concluded in 2019 the film almost certainly does not show a monster
Pro earlyPalaeontologist and leading sceptical analyst of the photo
Pro earlyPalaeontologist who summarised the hoax on Tetrapod Zoology
Pro earlyZoologist who analysed the photograph in 2010, 2016 and 2017
Pro earlyZoologist who analysed the photographs in 2008 and 2013 and called them a hoax
Pro earlyCo-author of the 2011 Journal of Scientific Exploration reanalysis
Zoologist and Tetzoo author who reviewed the case
Pro earlyZoologist and blogger who explained the beak and horns as rorqual anatomy (2008)
Tetrapod Zoology author who analysed the case
Pro earlyZoologist and blogger who contrasted the prints with Shipton's 1951 photograph
Pro earlyTetrapod Zoology author who judged the photos a plasticine model (2021)
Palaeontologist and writer; concluded the evidence strongly favours a basking shark
Pro earlyZoologist who analysed the photographs (Scientific American, 2013; X thread, 2020)
Pro earlyZoologist who wrote about the Revack and Dufftown cats on Tetrapod Zoology
Pro earlyZoologist; proposed Shepherd's beaked whale and questioned the account
Pro earlyZoologist and writer whose 2021 analysis concluded the photos were a hoax of some sort
Pro earlyZoologist who examined the specimen in 2009 and 2013 and took hair samples
Sceptical analyst, Tetrapod Zoology
Pro earlyTetrapod Zoology writer who compared it with the Hayling Island jungle cat
Pro earlyPalaeontologist who identified the animal on the footage as a saltwater crocodile
Palaeozoologist who identified the carcass as a raccoon
Pro earlyTetrapod Zoology blogger who identified the carcass as a three-toed sloth
Pro earlyZoologist and Tetrapod Zoology blogger who analysed the photograph
Pro earlyZoologist who identified the animal as a pale wild boar on 20 July