The legends are so old there's no way to be absolutely certain, but that is a popular theory. Early man happened upon fossilized dinosaur skulls and partial skeleton, don't realize they are millions of years old, and creates his iwn conclusions
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Some people believe that when ancient people discovered a Protoceratops, which is a roughly lion-sized ceratopsian, skeleton that they made up the Griffin.
It makes so much sense for dinosaurs to be the inspiration that it's most likely true. It's not like humans just suddenly started discovering dinosaur bones in the 1800's.
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