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$800 bid wins dino poop

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Published: May 1, 2008 at 4:01 PM

NEW YORK, May 1 (UPI) -- A New York auction house said an anonymous bidder won two specimens of dinosaur droppings with an $800 bid.

Bonhams New York said the dino dung was part of a natural history auction that included several other fossils, the New York Post reported Thursday.

Among other items sold at the auction was a fossilized fish eating another fish, which netted $45,000.

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