by Adrienne Mayor
First mention of my Griffin-dinosaur hypothesis, published in Cryptozoology 8 (1989): 12-26
Paleocryptozoologists should be come aware of the extensive body of ancient literary and artistic evidence for... more
Paleocryptozoologists should be come aware of the extensive body of ancient literary and artistic evidence for Mediterranean cryptids. A selected source-list of ancient texts extends Heuvelmans' 1968 chronology of sea monsters back to about 700 BCE. No previous identification of the griffin accounts for all of the relevant evidence in literature, art, and paleontology. Ancient interest in paleontology has been underestimated by modern scholars. Modern archaeological and paleontological field reports of "anomalous" remains could contribute to classical cryptozoology and might help identify unknown creatures of antiquity.
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