The popular idea that a dinosaur fossil inspired or influenced the griffin has just been challenged by paleontology.
Fossils have long inspired stories to be born, which is understandable, according to Dr Mark Witton and Richard Hing, paleontologists at the University of Portsmouth.
From “snakestones” in British culture, shark’s teeth being interpreted as snake tongues, to winged spirited brachiopods in China in the shape of a shell, fossils stimulate the mind to paint pictures and draw connections. Though some of these links may have an anchor in reality, the study authors say. But the griffin? No.
“More than that of any other modern scholar,” the study authors admit, “focused academic and public attention on the links between geology and myth.”This idea gained Mayor notoriety, respect, and even mainstream attention. Her theories based on geology were taken as fact, in other words.
Already, paleontologists found Mayor’s work wrought with confusing passages that even contradicted one another. In short, she developed a body of work around transmitting these tales from, however, they are just a touch too far from the gold mines to be convincing, according to study authors. But then, news and stories travel fast. That aside, in any case, this might be an argument of semantics.are similar, but these accounts do not persuasively link the two entities.
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