Prehistory Mystery
Until very recently, people didn’t know very much about what the world was like before humans. The last dinosaurs died 65 million years ago. Humans have only been around for about 2 million years. So no human ever saw a living dinosaur.
But our ancestors did find—and wonder about—dinosaur bones. Ancient people had their own ways of explaining these odd bones. They told stories about dragons, sea monsters, and other amazing creatures.
One of these was the griffin, a cross between a lion and an eagle, rumored to live in the deserts of China. People from
