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Ugliest rat found in NYC subway

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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A 6.1-magnitude earthquake shook Costa Rica Monday and could be felt as far away as Panama, officials said.
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