Medieval artists had some strange ideas about what exotic animals looked like. Makes sense when you think about how they probably never saw these animals in person and only knew them from the descriptions of explorers. Check out this very entertaining journey through the art of exotic animals in medieval texts from Curious Archive.

https://youtu.be/jnB2Uj7gWSE

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