12 Legendary Medieval Creatures Archaeologists Finally Proved Real

12 Legendary Medieval Creatures Archaeologists Finally Proved Real In the 1920s, palaeontologist Roy Chapman Andrews led a series of expeditions into the Gobi Desert of Mongolia on behalf of the American Museum of Natural History, and he came back with something extraordinary. Among the fossils his team unearthed from the sandstone was the skeleton of a four-limbed, beaked creature with clawed feet and a body built low to the ground. Andrews had found Protoceratops. The ancient world had apparently already named it centuries before he arrived.