Dragons, Dogs & Amadillos?

[Jorge_Stolfi]

Well, one need not assume a forgery nor a modern one. It would only require that the drawing was made later than assumed -- sometime in the mid-16th century or later

You are right, we cannot assume that the critter was drawn by the original Scribe.

I doubt that the later Retracers would have drawn the whole animal from nothing. And an armadillo, to boot.  A crown maybe, a robot tentacle, maybe, ... but a whole animal?

However it is possible that there was something there that they thought looked like an armadillo.  Or what they though that an armadillo looked like.  Or a pangolin...  And they "restored" it as such.

All the best, --stolfi