#AskAnExpert

[@NoirHammer]

If a university decided to offer a degree to train people in Cryptozoology by first having them learn zoology and paleontology and have to do rigorous coursework just to legitimize the field, see how many don't sign up.

[@juliadixon8465]

I would, in a second. I love all of it.

[@MrPigeoncat]

Id love to see how much these finding would change! Mabey not as galmous as now but so much more interesting knowing its as factual as scientific as possible.

[@salvagemonster3612]

We have enough fraud degrees with millennials and zoomers. Don’t need another

[@MrFossil367ab45gfyth]

I would join a cryptozoology club or group just to do it. I love cryptozoology. It may be a pseudoscience, but who knows what lurks out there.

[@SharonHill]

Too short. Darren can talk for hour and days on this stuff. So knowledgable.

[@ronnybank6817]

why did you cut him off? who cares if the interview goes for 2 hours

[@GandalfTheTsaagan]

Darren Naish! I love his TetZoo blog

[@christinecassidy2230]

Rational science data 👍🏻

[@kouprey221]

Je peux vous dire que si la cryptozoologie était mieux financé et avait une légitimité, beaucoup de gros animaux auraient été découverts à l’heure actuelle. Malheureusement ce n est pas le cas et on laisse des animaux disparaître avant même leur description. Je peux citer en exemple le Chipekwe d ‘Afrique centrale qui pourrait être un rhinoceros amphibie.

[@jamesweston2889]

tetrapod zoology his podcast is amazing..a someone from nhm london said..if there were plesiosaurs in loch ness..there would be a big breeding population..i.e. constant sightings..no fossil record continuation, no breeding populations, not enough prey item in loch ness for thousands of 30 ft predators..did zoo work for years..we did conservation programmes with a lot of species..there wouldnt be ONE living pterosaur in texas or 20 in new guinea..i do adder monitoring surveys in the cotswolds..6 adders is not a population likely to survive due to predators, poor breeding and genetics etc..one book described lake monsters in uk rivers for f sake..new discoveries out there..but not 40 ft bipedal therapods in austalia...the big no no for loch ness is the fact of the ice age glacier with the loch forming..so plesiosaur survives extinction then ice age and manages to get by lol

[@comicaiadventures]

Great talk

[@mateuszgalla7677]

Did the concavenator really have feathers ?

[@eddiebustos2568]

In Africa they discovered 6 foot tall chimpanzee. Same species just much bigger. And in Indonesia there is a new branch of chimpanzee. So there are new discoveries being made.

[@HayleydeRonde]

That Nessie image always looks like a person coming up for air from diving and going into a front crawl at just the right angle of light to me. I have to try and see it as a critter. When I hear of strings, I think of trying to get aerial photos, though it's not a cryptid I know much about. I always think bigfoot is military games and ghillie suits. And when I think of giants, I think of the stilt walking tribes, or even dogmen, I think of the tribes that kept and ate dogs and wore skins. Are they trying to keep knowledge of past history going or are they the history? I record melanistic foxes, and think they account for some black cat, black shuck or devil dog sightings, though not all. And it is easier to prove their numbers today, not quite as "rare" in the UK, as we once thought. In the US during Operation Fantasia foxes were painted with glow-in-the-dark radium-based paint, testing their creation in Washington D.C in 1945. Strangest of all is getting a report of a glowing fox from the US last year. If it has been a report of a deer from Finland with glowing antlers, it wouldn't surprise me either!

[@salvagemonster3612]

No it doesn’t. Never has looked like that. Yes a fake head on a toy sub yes. But not a scuba diver which really didn’t exist then

[@HayleydeRonde]

@@salvagemonster3612 I didn't say it was, just what it always looked like to me. Needless to say, being a walking animal encyclopaedia and able to ID the weirdest of cryptids/exotics that actually do exist, I never got the sense it was an image of something living.

[@thatoneaccount2630]

Sea Serpents are just Water Snakes, right?

[@salvagemonster3612]

Ok then show us your research and evidence to the contrary. It’s that simple. Prove him wrong and become rich and famous.

[@pikkon899]

I would say no even though the name implies that they are. The old stories of Sea Serpents described giant snake like or even dragon like animals that lived in the seas. The old stories also implied that some were prehistoric looking, reptile like creatures. Some stories also claimed that they looked like ancient giant fish. It depends on who's telling the story and really, most are just old sailor stores.

[@cyberak419]

Honest people boycott racist Naish and Witton