Cyclops and Dragon Tongues: How Real Fossils Inspired Giant Myths

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Cyclops and Dragon Tongues: How Real Fossils Inspired

Giant Myths By Stephanie Pappas, Live Science, July 18, 2017

https://www.livescience.com/59837-how-real-fossils-inspired-giant-myths.html

 

Romano, M. and Avanzini, M., 2017. The skeletons of

Cyclops and Lestrigons: misinterpretation of

Quaternary vertebrates as remains of the mythological

giants. Historical Biology, pp. 1-24.

http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/08912963.2017.1342640

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/317896323_The_skeletons_of_Cyclops_and_Lestrigons_misinterpretation_of_Quaternary_vertebrates_as_remains_of_the_mythological_giants

 

Another paper is:

 

Agnesi, V., Di Patti, C. and Truden, B., 2007. Giants and

elephants of Sicily. Geological Society, London, Special

Publications, 273(1), pp. 263-270.

https://iris.unipa.it/retrieve/handle/10447/18688/41318/Giants and Elephants of Sicily.pdf

 

Yours,

 

Paul H.

Edited July 19, 2017 by Oxytropidoceras
added URL to additional paper

[Funk.Missle]

A pleasant read