Mark Witton on Nostr: New paper for #FossilFriday! Richard Hing and I examine the popular idea that the ...
New paper for #FossilFriday! Richard Hing and I examine the popular idea that the mythological griffin was inspired by the horned #dinosaurs Protoceratops. We conclude that the hypothesis is non-evidenced at best, and outright problematic at worst.
Still, it gave me a chance to draw a griffin, so there's that.
Check it out here:
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/03080188241255543 
Published at
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