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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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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.