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File photoCASTLE DALE, Utah (AP) -- Paleontologists are excavating intact bones of a meat-eating dinosaur in central Utah.
The find, made in late November, was announced Monday by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management and the College of Eastern Utah's Prehistoric Museum.
The museum's field and laboratory manager, John Bird, says the site east of Castle Dale includes more than 20 vertebrae that are attached to one another. He believes they are from an allosaurus, a fairly common find in Utah from the Jurassic period.
Bird says it's unusual to find so many parts of the neck and back still connected.
Portions of a large plant-eating dinosaur also have been found at the site.
The excavation was put on hold during the winter but resumes next month. The public is invited to watch from May 4 to 8.
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