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Fossils
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The worse the country, the more tortured it is by water and wind, the more broken and carved, the more it attracts fossil hunters, who depend on the planet to open itself to us. We can only scratch away at what natural forces have brought to the surface.
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― How to Build a Dinosaur: Extinction Doesn't Have to Be Forever
― How to Build a Dinosaur: Extinction Doesn't Have to Be Forever
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It was a modern folklorist name Adrienne Mayor who first noticed that the Ancient Greek stories of the griffin (which had the body of a lion, head and claws of an eagle, tail of a serpent) perfectly described a Protoceratops. The Greeks believed that the griffin guarded treasures of gold. Mayor discovered that fossilized skulls of Protoceratops were often found in Mongolia, where the Greeks traveled to trade for gold.
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― The First Dinosaur: How Science Solved the Greatest Mystery on Earth
― The First Dinosaur: How Science Solved the Greatest Mystery on Earth
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