[tacticalogic]

what you choose to ignore it that the creatures depicted by pre-historic artists have been shown to have existed by the discovery of FOSSILS.

Fossils have been found exposed by natural erosion. We look at fossils and draw depctions of what we think they might have looked like based on those fossils. Do you disallow the possibility that those depictions may be the result of preistoric people having stumbled onto fossil remains of the same animals we've discovered?

[Fred Nerks]

...Do you disallow the possibility that those depictions may be the result of preistoric people having stumbled onto fossil remains of the same animals we've discovered?

And thus, the griffin? Interesting idea. Fossil of a winged mammal?