“Invoking a role for dinosaurs in griffin lore, especially species from distant lands like Protoceratops, not only introduces unnecessary complexity and inconsistencies to their ...

there is almost always at least one dinosaur that the human characters can admire without fear of being attacked.

The dinosaur's plumage may have been used for ... Velociraptor is known to have preyed on herbivores such as Protoceratops. One famous fossil immortalized the two species locked in an ancient ...