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Mythic Creatures: And the Impossibly Real Animals Who Inspired Them (American Museum of Natural History S.) - Hardcover
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Based on the American Museum of Natural History exhibition Mythic Creatures: Dragons, Unicorns & Mermaids, curated by Dr. Mark A. Norrell, this stunning volume explores an array of mythological creatures and the real animals that inspired them. For thousands of years, humans everywhere sometimes inspired by living animals or even fossils have brought imaginary creatures to life in stories, songs and pictures. This volume explores everything from the powerful dragon to the soaring phoenix, tracing them through legend and natural history. Glowing photos showcase rare objects from around the world as well as models of creatures like dragons, unicorns and krakens, along with fossils of actual extinct animals such as the six-foot-tall primate called Gigantopithecus and Aepyornis, a bird that stood over nine feet tall. Also included are maps, drawings and ephemera from the Middle Ages to modern times. Today, these legendary beings continue to thrill, terrify and enchant us.
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Dr Mark A. Norrell is the Macaulay Curator and Chair of the Division of Palaeontology at the American Museum of Natural History, where he discovers and studies fossils of reptiles, amphibians, birds and especially dinosaurs.
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