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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A dinosaur skeleton roughly the size of an 18-wheeler is whole again and hitting the road.
The replica of the lizard-like dinosaur nicknamed "Dippy" turned up without thighbones after someone hauled them off from the Utah Field House of Natural History in Vernal. Museum workers noticed the theft April 5.
Museum manager Steve Sroka put in a call to local radio station KVEL asking the station to broadcast a message that if the thief would return the giant concrete bones, he would not call in the Vernal police.
The femurs, about five feet long and a few hundred pounds each, then showed up Tuesday in the museum driveway.
The skeleton is now on its way to Price, where it will greet students on campus at Utah State University Eastern.
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