Rare diplodocus dinosaur sells for $650,000 at British auction


LONDON, Nov 28:  The skeleton of a diplodocus dinosaur that roamed what is now the United States some 160 million years ago was sold for 400,000 pounds (651,100 dollars) to an unidentified public institution at an auction in Britain on Wednesday. Misty, as the dinosaur was nicknamed, will later be put on public display, the auctioneers said. It was found by the teenage sons of German dinosaur hunter Raimund Albersdoerfer in Dana quarry in Wyoming, in the western United States. (agencies)