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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Palaeontologist and writer who treats the case as a classic sea-serpent report
Zoologist who linked Roe's account to Patterson's film
Zoologist who concluded in 2019 the film almost certainly does not show a monster
Zoologist and Tetzoo author who reviewed the case
Tetrapod Zoology author who analysed the case
Palaeontologist and writer; concluded the evidence strongly favours a basking shark
Sceptical analyst, Tetrapod Zoology