Griffin and the Dinosaur The

Could Griffins have been real? When Adrienne Mayor carefully read the ancient Greek and Roman descriptions this mythic hybrid of a lion and an eagle sounded like something people had actually seen. What could explain that evidence? After a decade of hunting through myths poring over old maps and tracing the discoveries of modern dinosaur hunters she found the answer: awesome dinosaur fossils observed by ancient gold-hunters in the Gobi desert. Here is the story of one insightful curious and determined woman who solved the mystery of the Griffin and invented a new science. Now she and others travel the world matching myths and fossils.