Medieval paintings of animals that look nothing like real animals because the artist had never seen them

A thread of medieval paintings of animals that look nothing like real animals because the artist had never seen them.
Starting with – The Oyster pic.twitter.com/gzUIGs96AP

— Daniel Holland (@DannyDutch) October 5, 2020

I enjoyed Daniel Holland's Twitter thread of old paintings with best-guesses of what animals looked like.