This proves that the Chinese eat anything...
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including dinosaur fossils!!!
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070704/ap_on_fe_st/china_dinosaur_medicine
Chinese villagers eat dinosaur bones
Wed Jul 4, 8:08 AM ET
BEIJING - Villagers in central China dug up a ton of dinosaur bones and boiled them in soup or ground them into powder for traditional medicine, believing they were from flying dragons and had healing powers.
Until last year, the fossils were being sold in Henan province as "dragon bones" at about 4 yuan (50 cents) per kilogram (2.2 pounds), scientist Dong Zhiming told The Associated Press on Wednesday.
Dong, a professor with the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, said when the villagers found out the bones were from dinosaurs they donated 200 kilograms (440 pounds) to him and his colleagues for research.
"They had believed that the 'dragon bones' were from the dragons flying in the sky," he said.
The calcium-rich bones were sometimes boiled with other ingredients and fed to children as a treatment for dizziness and leg cramps. Other times they were ground up and made into a paste that was applied directly to fractures and other injuries, he said.
The practice had been going on for at least two decades, he said.
Dong was among a team of scientists who recently excavated in Henan's Ruyang County an 60-foot-long plant-eating dinosaur, which lived 85 million to 100 million years ago. Local officials held a news conference Tuesday, showing off the find to the public for the first time.
Another two dinosaur fossils were being excavated in the area, which is rich in fossilized dinosaur eggs, Dong said. -
wtf how it taste
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ermm..., its the chinareans.
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No wonder there are not much dino bones dug up in such a large place as China. All of it got eaten or grounded into medicines.
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hmmm
hehe hehe
how many ppl can truly claimm they ate a dinosaur ? -
yeh i would gladly try dino meat
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Originally posted by tut4nkh4m3n:yeh i would gladly try dino meat
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riiiight.
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Heck if there are dinosaurs in China now, they will end up like the Dodo bird.
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i want to see a T rex running away from humansOriginally posted by elindra:Heck if there are dinosaurs in China now, they will end up like the Dodo bird. -
they eat anything but dun eat everything...
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got expiry date?Originally posted by tut4nkh4m3n:yeh i would gladly try dino meat -
actually, they've eaten a lot of other things too..
there was a pile of tortoise shells with writing on them.. from one of the forgotten dynasties..
they thought it was 'dragon scales' and sold it as that... the 'scales' were ground up and made into medicine
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Dragon Bone --> Eat and you'll rise dragon fire tiger. -
Erm... People from China are called Chinese...Originally posted by Cool-gal:ermm..., its the chinareans. -
i like Chinareans better
the idiots from PRC tar all ethnic chineseOriginally posted by caleb_chiang:Erm... People from China are called Chinese... -
Hell no. I'm a Chinese and I don't like this tag on me.
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probably like chickenOriginally posted by crazy monkey:wtf how it taste -
You siao ar you?Originally posted by mistyblue:No wonder there are not much dino bones dug up in such a large place as China. All of it got eaten or grounded into medicines.
A large portion of the world's dinosaur finds are made in China... probably more if they didn't eat them that much. There are plenty of dinosaur species unique to China:
Yunxiansaurus
Kunmingosaurus
Micropachycephalosaurus
Sangonghesaurus
Kelmayisaurus
Xuanhanosaurus
Yibinosaurus
Nanyangosaurus
Shixinggia
Xinjiangovenator
Sinusonasus
Yuanmousaurus
Jiutaisaurus
Archaeornithomimus
Mifunesaurus
Probactrosaurus
Ngexisaurus
Zizhongosaurus
Chuanjiesaurus
Oshanosaurus
Sinornithoides
Yimenosaurus
Asiaceratops
Jiangshanosaurus
Heilongjiangosaurus
Yangchuanosaurus
and many more
And everytime you eat a chicken or duck, you are eating a theropod dinosaur, birds are modern day avian theropod dinosaurs, the only surviving member of the dinosaur family.