Hippogriff

[Simon Biber]

No: HPFGUIDX 7088

Wow... the Hippogriff really existed then -- one of those flying reptiles
from the late dinosaur era.

> It is thought that the Mongolians (who also traded gold and griffin
> tales toward China at the same time) were exagerating about the
> danger of griffins, as they had never seen one that was not a fossil:
> specifically fossils of Oviraptor nesting on their eggs, which are
> the treasure that erodes out of those mountains nowadays. But it was
> easy for the Mongolians to recognize from the fossils that these huge
> critters had beaks and claws and nested on their eggs, thus
> resembling huge eagles, and had four legs with claws, thus resembling
> lions more than birds.