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07-04-2007, 08:24 PM
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070704/...6ObW03NofMWM0F
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 |
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07-04-2007, 08:27 PM
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Lets say your strolling on the beach and you find some dinosaur fossils...
How much would paleontologists pay you for them? These people could be rich by now. __________________ WMJ Do not pass by my epitaph, traveler. But having stopped, listen and learn, then go your way. There is no boat in Hades, no ferryman Charon, No caretaker Aiakos, no dog Cerberus. All we who are dead below Have become bones and ashes, but nothing else. I have spoken to you honestly, go on, traveler, Lest even while dead I seem loquacious to you. |
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07-04-2007, 08:39 PM
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Are you kidding me? Do you know how GOOD dinosaur bone soup is?!?! My mouth is watering..
Forget the money, it's all about the soup! 
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07-04-2007, 08:50 PM
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07-04-2007, 09:03 PM
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I would have crushed them up and snorted them myself.
That's the best way to get their powers. I snorted a stegosauras plate and now my armor is +7 __________________ "If we can hit that bullseye, the rest of the dominos will fall like a house of cards. Checkmate." |
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07-04-2007, 09:11 PM
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07-04-2007, 09:13 PM
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07-04-2007, 11:34 PM
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Now that's how you get superpowers right there. Damn those Chinese and their uncanny abilities with magic. Next thing you know people around there will be like 7 and a half feet tall. Wait..
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07-05-2007, 12:29 AM
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lol, introducing the new superhero from China, Dragonman and his partner, Dinoman.
 Marvel should pay me for this idea. __________________ Morey puts on robe and wizard hat |
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07-05-2007, 12:37 AM
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Just Reminded me of the bloodninja convo. __________________ WMJ Do not pass by my epitaph, traveler. But having stopped, listen and learn, then go your way. There is no boat in Hades, no ferryman Charon, No caretaker Aiakos, no dog Cerberus. All we who are dead below Have become bones and ashes, but nothing else. I have spoken to you honestly, go on, traveler, Lest even while dead I seem loquacious to you. |
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