so the "dragon bones" in chinese pharmacies were just... regular fossils this wh

Spent a summer in Guangxi back in '15 chasing leads on those apothecary "dragon bones"—turns out every single one was either a stegosaur scapula or a chunk of mastodon femur. The shopkeepers? Knew exactly what they were selling. "For the energy, not the science," one old guy told me while weighing o……