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Re:Major Raphael Discovery Emerges from Vatican Museum Resto... by Cthulhu_ on Friday July 04, 2025 @09:19AM (#44464305)
Do you mean the dragon in the background? Fwiw dinosaur fossils have been found for thousands of years already, with theories being that the Cyclops was based on mammoth skulls and griffins on triceratops fossils.
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Re:Major Raphael Discovery Emerges from Vatican Museum Resto... by bovinegambler on Friday July 04, 2025 @11:24AM (#44465342)
The mammoth-cyclops/griffin-triceratops connection sounded really cool, so I did some quick searches. For what it's worth, it seems that this is a pop theory but not based in evidence.
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Re:Major Raphael Discovery Emerges from Vatican Museum Resto... by ludicrousdispla on Friday July 04, 2025 @05:42PM (#44468082)
The one I am referring to is in the first image, where the central figure has their right hand around the neck of what looks like a dinosaur.
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Re:Major Raphael Discovery Emerges from Vatican Museum Resto... by dragonwriter on Friday July 04, 2025 @08:35PM (#44469183)
That is clearly a dinosaur, but almost certainly an avian dinosaur, which aren't particularly hard to find, either in Christian religious art or, for that matter, daily life in much of the world.
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