I have started a YouTube series "Looking for Leviathans", science, statistics and sea monsters (not necessarily in that order!). The first episode has just come out, all about the life of the Victorian "sea serpent monomaniac" Captain George Drevar. www.youtube.com/channel/UCVa...

1/3 Earlier this year we did an interview for The Conversation UK. Our English language version has now had over 510,000 reads lnkd.in/eXm-rfaS whilst the French language version has had just shy of 130,000 reads.

Third blogpost is up, a selection of five essential cryptozoological books, important reading for newcomers complete with links and reviews. Meurger & Gagnon, Lewis & Bartlett, Naish, Regal, and Shine get some love. More in this vein soon academiccryptozoology.blogspot.com/2026/07/five...

Five Essential Cryptozoology Books

This post is one attempt of many to compile a beginner's reading list for cryptozoology. The cryptozoological literature to date suffers fro...

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Second blogpost is up, a review of Bernard Heuvelmans' stances on authority and conservation - key to the history of cryptozoology. academiccryptozoology.blogspot.com/2026/07/bern...

First blogpost is up, a critique of Loxton & Prothero's Abominable Science! mokele-mbembe chapter. Much, much more to say on mokele-mbembe, particularly its folkloric origins (it seems to have been solved), but those will have to wait a little bit academiccryptozoology.blogspot.com/2026/07/moke...

(Re)Introducing myself here My name is Lana, I’m currently an independent researcher and science educator, hoping to pursue an academic career in ethnozoology. I’m heavily interested in cryptozoology, which is what you’ll see me post about most frequently