Exhibit Explores the Real Science Between Mythical Monsters

In many cultures , creatures like ocean serpents , griffins , and Dragon were more than fable ; their existence seemed a demonstrable fact . An showing at Boston ’s Museum of Science explicate the real scientific discovery that inspired the myths .

The display “ Mythic Creatures : Dragons , Unicorns & Mermaids ” was create by the American Museum of Natural History and is presently on show at the Museum of Science in Boston . The display await at mythologic creatures from all over the earth , from Greek legends of cyclopean heavyweight to modern sighting of Bigfoot . It also compares similar regional myths , such as counterpoint European mental image of the unicorn with similar Asian legends .

But the cornerstone of the exhibit examines the real inspirations behind these mythical wight , displaying various models , animals , and stay on . For example , the aeropyornis , a giant , now - nonextant hiss likely urge the fable of the roc . Fossilized remains of the protoceratops institute in the Gobi desert resemble description of the griffon , supposed denizens of that region . Legend claimed that the skull once mounted in an Austrian townspeople hall belonged to a slain dragon , but was , in fact , the heading of a woolly rhinoceros . It might risk shattering your puerility dreams , but it ’s also a fascinating aim example in how “ trial impression ” of a creature ’s universe has been misinterpreted as well a face at the genuinely noteworthy animals that have tread the Earth .

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