Extinct Walrus Penis Bone goes for $8,000!!! I'm in the wrong business....
On my birthday no less!! A fossilized penis bone from an extinct walrus got auctioned off for $8,000, far below the expected price. The 4½-foot-long "item," covered with weathered skin and dry muscle tissue, was sold to the company that runs the Ripley's Believe It or Not museums, said Josh Chait, director of operations for the I.M. Chait Gallery, his family's auction house.
"Their corporate office bought it and they'll probably display it around the country," he said. The fossilized baculum, or penis bone, is from a species of walrus that went extinct 12,000 years ago. It was found preserved in permafrost in northern Siberia.
The auction house said it was believed to be the largest known mammal penis fossil (Wait till The Church dies.....couldn't help it.....).
"I'm glad it's going to a museum and not a private collection" so it can on public display, Chait said. "It's definitely something everyone should see once in their life."
