Comparisons between the skeleton of Protoceratops and ancient griffin art. The griffins are all very obviously based on big cats, from their musculature and long, flexible tails to the manes ...

A Protoceratops skeleton with an associated track (outlined in a box near the hips). From Niedźwiedzki et al., 2011 Earlier this week I wrote about a herd of small sauropods that once walked along the ...

Scientists say there is little evidence behind popular theory that fossils from protoceratops played key role in creation of fantastical beast From the fearsome, clawed creatures of Greek mythology to ...

It’s one thing to find a whole dinosaur skeleton, but quite another to discover it’s been buried with its own footprint. In a unique find, Polish palaeontologists found a perfectly preserved print ...

Scientists say they have debunked the theory that dinosaur fossils inspired the myth of the griffin. According to legends dating back as far as the 4th millennium BC, the griffin, or gryphon, was a ...

Comparisons between the skeleton of Protoceratops and ancient griffin art. The griffins are all very obviously based on big cats, from their musculature and long, flexible tails to the manes ...

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 ...

A widely accepted idea that dinosaur fossils inspired the myth of the griffin, a creature with the head and wings of an eagle on a lion’s body, has been challenged by a new study. For over 30 years, ...