Author(s): Marc Aronson,Adrienne Mayor,Chris Muller
Format: Hardback
No. of Pages: 48
Publisher: National Geographic Kids
Language: English
Date Published: 2014-04-15
Dimensions: 242.57 x 283.21 x 9.91mm
Publication City/Country: United States
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Illustrations: Maps; Illustrations, color; Illustrations, black and white

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.