Caption Comparisons between the skeleton of Protoceratops and ancient griffin art. The griffins are all very obviously based on big cats, from their musculature and long, flexible tails to the ...

Tales of Protoceratops bones and skulls with a "bird-like" snout then traveled southwest on trade routes to inspire, or at least influence, stories and art of the griffin, a mythological creature ...

And for more than 30 years it has been widely accepted that griffin mythology was started by early ... they also state that the geographic spread of griffin art through history does not align ...