For centuries, scientists thought they knew where the griffin legend came from. A new study takes a closer look at the data and folklore's influence on science. A popular and widely-promoted claim ...
Marc Aronson and Adrienne Mayor, illus. by Chris Muller. National Geographic, $18.99 (48p) ISBN 978-1-4263-1108-6 What started as a hunch—that the legend of the griffin began with people who had seen ...
A triceratops skull may have served to generate tales about a griffin, a mythical creature with the body, tail and back legs of a lion, eagle’s talons as its front feet, and the beak-like head and ...
Painting of a griffin, a lion-raptor chimaera, alongside the fossils of Protoceratops, a horned dinosaur. The latter are said to have informed the lore and appearance of the former, but our study ...
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