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11.22.08

Dino Dung Beats Out Space Rock

An exotic meteorite fails to garner interest at an auction, but bidders jump at fossilized feces

By Gregory Mone Posted 05.01.2008 at 11:04 am 1 Comment

In an auction battle between two odd items yesterday at Bonhams New York, a few fossilized pieces of 130-million-year-old dinosaur dung sold for nearly one thousand dollars, but a 4.5 billion-year-old meteorite didn't find any takers.

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