Archeologists in central China's Henan Province unearthed fossils of the heaviest dinosaur in Asia in an area where local residents kept on digging up what they called "dragon's bones" to use as traditional Chinese medicine.
The calcium-rich 'Dragon 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.
Scientists studied the "dragon's bones" and identified them as fossils of dinosaurs that lived between 85 to 100 million years ago in the Cretaceous period of the Mesozoic Era.
The dinosaur named Ruyang Yellow River Dinosaur measures 18 meters long and its sacrum - part of the vertebrae in the lower back - is as broad as 1.31 meters, making it broader than that of the dinosaur fossil unearthed in Gansu in 2006, which was then identified as Asia's heaviest dinosaur.
Links: Qingdaonews & Sina & Physorg
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