The griffin and the dinosaur : how Adrienne Mayor discovered a fascinating link between myth and science / Marc Aronson with Adrienne Mayor ; illustrated by Chris Muller.
Material type:
TextPublisher: Washington, D.C. : National Geographic, [2014]Description: 48 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 29 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 1426311087
- 1426311095
- 9781426311086
- 9781426311093
- Griffin & the dinosaur
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Children's Book
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Main Library | Children's NonFiction | 398.2454 A769 | Available | 33111007537083 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Could Griffins have been real? When Adrienne Mayor carefully read the ancient Greek and Roman descriptions, this mythic hybrid of a lion and an eaglesounded like something people had actually seen. What could explain that evidence? After a decade of hunting through myths, poring over old maps, and tracingthe discoveries of modern dinosaur hunters, she found the answer- awesome dinosaur fossils observed by ancient gold-hunters in the Gobi desert. Here is thestory 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 worldmatching myths and fossils.
Includes bibliographical references (page 46) and index.
Prairie girl -- The sound of heat -- Sketching griffins -- The cyclops and the griffin pup -- Nomads and gold -- The secret of the flaming cliffs -- Battlefield of the gods -- Stories, stories, everywhere.
Traces the research scientist co-author's explorations in Greece and the Gobi Desert for the origins of the mythical griffin, relating the story of the ancient Scythians and the griffins that were said to have guarded their treasure.