Ancient meteorite goes unsold in N.Y. as dung sells

Marvin Kilgore, owner of the Fukang meteorite poses for photographs with
the meteorite at Bonham's Auction house in New York, April 30, 2008.

NEW YORK (Reuters) -- Some dinosaur dung was snapped up at auction in New York even as a 4.5 billion year old meteorite which was supposed to top the sale went unsold.

The two chunks of 130-million-year-old coprolite, otherwise known as fossilized dinosaur dung, fetched $960 at Bonhams in New York on Wednesday, the auction house said.

The Jurassic-era rocks were sold for more than double their maximum estimate, said spokeswoman Staci Smith. full story