image: 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 ...

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

They also couldn’t find any unambiguous reference to Protoceratops fossils in ancient literature. Protoceratops’ only similarity to the griffin is that it was a four-limbed animal with a beak.

The fossil is a "very rare" document of a mammal hunting a dinosaur. ... which preserves a Velociraptor and Protoceratops locked in a battle to the death," Mallon said.

A painting of a griffin alongside the fossils of Protoceratops. Scientists say that while it's possible the fossils inspired folklore, it's unlikely. Mark P. Witton.

The fossils of a dinosaur and a small mammal have been discovered locked in combat when they apparently died ... In the 1970s a Velociraptor and a Protoceratops were found in the Gobi ...

The same locality produced the famous “fighting dinosaurs” fossil, where a Protoceratops and a Velociraptor were discovered ...

The Velociraptor, immortalized in popular culture, has been widely studied for its presumed intelligence. Fossils of Velociraptor have been uncovered in the Djadokhta Formation of Mongolia, dating ...

They say the suggestion that Protoceratops fossils were found by nomads prospecting for gold does not stand up because no gold has been found near known fossil sites, and add that, even if they ...

Uncovering Dinosaur Behavior David Hone Princeton Univ., $29.95. In 1971, paleontologists stumbled upon the remains of an 80-million-year-old battle in the sandstones of Mongolia’s Gobi Desert.

A series of foot tracks in southeastern China points to the discovery of a giant velociraptor relative, paleontologists suggest in a new study. ... A Timeline of Vomit and Feces Fossils: ...