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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