AMH (3/5)

Warlike amazons; the one-eyed man-eating Cyclops; the ferocious griffin, part bird, part lion. Were these creatures, celebrated by the ancient Greeks and immortalised by Homer something more than myth?
Join the hunt with some of today's leading palaeontologists as they explore newly-translated evidence and examine remains that just may have inspired tales of these legendary monsters.
Travel to the island of Samos, said to be the site of an Amazon battlefield, and analyse the gigantic bones that were found there. New data suggests the ancients actually searched for, excavated, measured and displayed these massive fossils.
Is this the proof that the practice of palaeontology, long considered a modern science, actually began some 2,000 years before?
Meet the monsters that just might link the Greek classical age with earth's prehistoric past and find out if these mythological beasts really have a place in the fossil record.

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