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Apr 29, 2008 3:01 pm US/Eastern

Dinosaur Dung, Ancient Finds Up For Auction In NYC

NEW YORK (AP) ― It may look like a geologic find, but the three-pound red and white mineral heading for auction in New York is actually a pile of dinosaur dung.

Bonhams New York puts the prehistoric deposit up for sale Wednesday along with such items as a 30,000-year-old woolly mammoth tusk, a giant beaver skull and a skeleton of a Russian Cave Bear.

The dung looks like a rock on the outside and a colorful mineral inside. It's 130 million years old and is expected to sell for between $350 and $450.

The auction house is selling some items that are more than 438 million years old.

The priciest item up for sale is the Fukang Meteorite, which weighs almost a ton. Bonhams says it's expected to sell for more than $2.25 million.

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