Dinosaur bone soup

The BBC is reporting that yokels in central China have been digging up dinosaur bones and turning them into soup:

Villagers in central China have been using dinosaur bones as medicine - thinking they were from dragons. These bones have been dug up, then boiled in soup or ground down to make traditional medicines for decades.

Well, the villagers’ thinking is understandable. There’s definitely something special about organic matter that can survive for 65 million years! According to the BBC, these aren’t crunchy stone fossils - these are bones! Which makes the condesceding tone of the article a wonderful exercise in hubris.

1 comment July 7th, 2007