NEW YORK (AP) -- A 130-million-year-old pile of poo goes for $960.
A spokeswoman for Bonhams New York says the prehistoric deposit fetched more than its pre-auction estimate of $450 Wednesday night in Manhattan.
The auction house says the dinosaur dung is Jurassic era coprolite. It looks like a rock on the outside and a colorful mineral inside. Steve Tsengas of Fairport Harbor, Ohio, near Cleveland, bought the ancient excrement.
Tsengas owns OurPets, a company that sells waste and odor control products for dog and cat poop.
The 71-year-old Tsengas says he bought the dung in hopes of motivating his employees and using it as a marketing tool by displaying it at the company's booth at trade shows.
"Poop," he says, "is a big business in the pet industry."
(Picture from Bonhams New York)
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