@cryptidclips7: Fiction. This video is a lifelike rendering of the first known mythical creature in human history: the Lion-Man. This striking hybrid possesses the powerful head of an Ice Age cave lion and the upright posture of a human. We know this creature lived in the ancient imagination because of a remarkable artifact recovered from the Hohlenstein-Stadel cave in Germany. Carved roughly 40,000 years ago from a single mammoth tusk, the figure was discovered in 1939 as a collection of fragmented pieces. Anthropologists have learned from this artifact that our Aurignacian ancestors possessed the unique ability to conceive of things that didn’t exist in the physical world, a hallmark of human creativity. Whether this creature was a superstar of Upper Paleolithic popular culture or the vision of a lone prehistoric artist, we can never truly know; however, as humans today, we can still relate to that ancient spark of wonder and imagine the stories it once inspired. #ancienthistory #mythicalcreature #AIvideo #caughtoncamera #myth