Chinese Medicine and Dinosaur Bones

[Suet Seung]

News about dinosaur bones being discovered:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070704/...osaur_medicine

In the article it says that Chinese villagers have been using dinosaur bones to make medicine or as medicine, believing that they're dragon bones which used to be dragons who fly in the sky and stuff like that. Read the article, it's short--so could it be that all these myths about flying dragons that are in Chinese myths and legends and whatnot, really just stemming from dinosaur bones and imaginative minds of people too?

[HuangYushi]

Dinosaurs are called 恐龙 (Frightening Dragons) in Chinese.
The dinosaurs can't be named after dragons if dragons had not existed first in the minds of the Chinese, prior to the discovery of (fossilized) dinosaurs.

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A step into the quite-fictitious-but-also-near-to-fact past:

In HDSD Chapter 12:

As for Ji Xiaofu, her internal injury had been caused by poison. After Zhang Wuji had ascertained its roots, he had combatted it with a decoction of raw fossil fragments (sheng1 long2 gu3), perilla (su1 mu4), mole cricket (tu2 gou3), Trogopterus dung (wu3 ling2 zhi1), Caper Euphorbia seed (qian1 jin1 zi3) and powdered toad (ge2 fen3).

Raw Fossil Fragments (sheng1 long gu3) is 生龙骨.
The 龙骨 here refers to "dinosaur bones".