Naish has appeared widely on British television, having featured on BBC News 24, Channel 4's Sunday Brunch, Richard and Judy, and "Live from Dinosaur Island,", as well as the documentary "How to build a dinosaur". He appeared on a Channel 4 discussion programme on cryptozoology, presented by journalist Jon Ronson, during the late 1990s. Naish's research on the giant Isle of Wight sauropod "Angloposeidon", on the pterosaur "Tupuxuara", and on the sauropod "Xenoposeidon" was widely reported in the news media, as was his research paper on floating giraffes.