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Updated: Monday, 11 Apr 2011, 2:42 PM CDT
Published : Monday, 11 Apr 2011, 2:42 PM CDT
SUNBURY, Penn. (AP) - The remains of Tinker the teenage T. Rex soon could be returning to the fossil hunters who unearthed them after a recent bankruptcy ruling in Pennsylvania.
Most of the 65-million-year-old fossils have spent years in storage with a trustee after the man hired to restore them filed for bankruptcy protection.
The trustee wanted fossil hunters Ron Frithiof, of Austin, Texas, and Kim Hollrah of Iowa, to pay $75,000 for Prehistoric Journeys' services, but a federal judge last month ruled they owed only about $18,500.
Frithiof's attorney, Joe Ellingson, says he should be able to take possession once that is paid.
Tinker was unearthed from northwest South Dakota in 1998.
The bankruptcy case is a short chapter in Tinker's clouded history, which also involved a five-year ownership battle in federal court.
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