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Mayor
's
hypothesis
suggests
that
unfamiliar
fossils
exhibiting
bird
and
mammal
features
–
beaks
,
four
legs
,
and
eggs
in
nests
–
can
help
explain
the
belief
recorded
in
numerous
Greek
and
Roman
sources
from
Herodotus
and
Aeschylus
to
Pliny
,
Pausanias
,
and
Aelian
that
griffins
were
real
animals
observed
in
the
deserts
along
the
Silk
Route
and
might
also
help
account
for
the
proliferation
of
reports
and
illustrations
of
griffins
that
began
after
the
7th
century
BC
.