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.
ISBN: | 9781426311086 |
Publication date: | 8th May 2014 |
Author: | Marc Aronson, Adrienne Mayor, National Geographic Society US |
Illustrator: | Chris Müller |
Publisher: | National Geographic Kids an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers |
Format: | Hardback |
Pagination: | 48 pages |
Series: | Science & Nature |
Genres: |
Dinosaurs Educational: Sciences, general science |