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Painting of a griffin, a lion-raptor chimaera, alongside the fossils of Protoceratops, a horned dinosaur. The latter are said to have informed the lore and appearance of the former, but our study ...

Dinosaur fossils may not have inspired the mythological griffin, a new study has found, debunking a century-old theory. For many years, it was widely accepted that the griffin—a creature with the head ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The vicious little dinosaur Velociraptor was a feathered fiend, according to scientists who found evidence of quills on this well-known meat-eater's forearm. Sign up here. In ...

BATH, England - Paleontologists discovered fossils from over 100 million years ago of an older, "more heavily built" relative of the famed velociraptor dinosaur. The new bird-like dinosaur, named ...

An extraordinary fossil has preserved the dramatic moment when a carnivorous mammal attacked a larger plant-eating dinosaur around 125 million years ago. For a study published in the journal ...

For centuries, scientists thought they knew where the griffin legend came from. A new study takes a closer look at the data and folklore's influence on science. A popular and widely-promoted claim ...