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Referenced as 'a brilliant series of books by a scholar called Adrian Mayer' about the theory that discovery of dragon fossils might have inspired dragon myths

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Described as 'a brilliant book by Adrienne Mayor, who's actually a kind of classicist stroke paleontologist' - the book argues that Native American stories about giant creatures may derive from their encounters with fossils of ancient animals like the giant beaver

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Tom mentions 'a wonderful book written by Adrienne Mayer' who is described as being at the intersection of classicist and paleontologist. The book examines records from ancient Greece, Rome, and Native American legends about thunder beasts and prehistoric creatures, including her thesis about griffins being based on Protoceratops fossils in the Gobi Desert.

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Referred to as having 'written a wonderful book about kind of classical paleontology' in the context of discussing how Greeks identified mastodon fossils on Samos as elephants from Dionysus's legendary invasion from India.