California Family has a Dyno-mite Auction Item

Ice Age skeleton now on eBay

We've all got of a few skeletons in our closets. One California family's got one so big it's actually in their garage. And its old, too. 15-million-years-old, give or take. Now, the skeleton of an Ice Age mastodon needs to make way for the kind of thing a garage is supposed to house - a hot rod. So, the bones are now up for bidding on eBay, reported Reuters on Friday.

The minimum bid is $115,000 for the intact remains of the dinosaur Nancy Fiddler and her family found on their Sebastapol, California ranch in 1997. She told Reuters her family needs the money an online auction could bring, and her son would prefer to build hot rod cars in the space the creature now occupies.

Excavation revealed that the elephant's bones, found by a ranch hand, are a nearly complete mastodon skeleton that included everything but the tusks. Though one paleontologist expressed scepticism that the family will get anything like its asking price, it will be an interesting auction to watch. However, as of this posting we were unable to find the auction on eBay. We'll keep you posted.

Pictured: Nancy Fiddler and her dinosaur. (REUTERS/Robert Galbraith)