Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Bressan is a geologist who covers curiosities about Earth. The theory suggests that fossils of Protoceratops – a species of ...

Protoceratops was a small (around 2 meters long) dinosaur that lived in Mongolia and northern China during the Cretaceous period (75–71 million years ago). They belong to the horned dinosaur group, ...

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 ...

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 ...