Academics and researchers
Sourced entries. A listing is not a confirmed animal.
- Jeff Meldrum (Idaho State University) — An anatomy and anthropology professor and expert on primate foot morphology who argued footprint casts deserve scientific study. Author of Sasquatch: Legend Meets Science (2006).
- Grover Krantz — Washington State University anthropologist, one of the few academics to publicly argue Bigfoot exists. He wrote more than 60 academic articles and 10 books on human evolution.
- John Napier — British primatologist known for Homo habilis work. His 1972 book Bigfoot weighed the evidence cautiously.
- John Bindernagel — Wildlife biologist who sought evidence for Sasquatch from 1963 onward.
- René Dahinden — Swiss-Canadian investigator who spent decades in the field in the Pacific Northwest. A major advocate of the Patterson-Gimlin film and co-author of Sasquatch (1973) with Don Hunter.
- Ivan T. Sanderson — Biologist and writer whose 1960s books and TV appearances helped popularize cryptozoology.