Dinosaur soup is how old?

Question

Associated Press reported that 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.
http://www.physorg.com/news102762937.html

The bones were clearly not fossiled, and noone is denying they are dino bones, so can they really be 65 million years old?
Or is it more likely that dinos have been around recently? After all, Chinese culture is full of dragon folklore.

Answer 1

To reiterate the first poster. "Clearly not fossilized". Have you examined them yourself? The link you sent made no mention of organic material. "Dakota", the dinosaur found in 1999 has skin and organs intact, albeit in a fossilized state.

http://hitsusa.com/blog/363/dakota-dinosaur-mummy/

I'd imagine the best palaentologists will be rushing to examine these "clearly unfossilized" bones for themselves. I'll be watching the news for this incrdeible story.

Since the bones are fossilized, I'd imagine some amount of calcium should still be there. I wouldn't try eating them myself.

They could be 65 million years old or even 230 million years old. There was no mention of any attempt to date them.

To the other poster. Ken Hovind can't even define evolution. I've seen his videos and he gets it wrong in the introduction.

Perhaps he can spend his time in jail to learn something.

Answer 2

The Chinese will eat just about anything. I would not order dino-bone soup, whether it is fossilized or not. But, to answer your question, dinosaurs did not go extinct millions of years ago as we are taught to believe. There have been many dinosaur sightings in the twentieth century alone.
The word 'dinosaur' was introduced in 1841. That was when folks were starting to look for the strange bones in the dirt. Before that they were known as 'dragons.' Cultures around the world have dragon legends, and China is no exception. But even around the time of Christ they were rare and some species had been wiped out. The main reason is that people were killing them because;
1. They were a menace
2. To be a hero
3. For food or medicine
So dinosaurs did not die millions of years ago, and some bones (not just in China) have been found un-fossilized.

Answer 3

"Clearly not fossilized"? What leads you to that statement? Of course they were fossilized, and ground up and used for soup. Just like stone soup.