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Organizers of a traveling exhibition about the human body breathed a sigh of relief on Thursday after an anonymous telephone tip off led to the recovery of a stolen lung.
The caller, who did not claim the posted 2,000 dollar reward, directed staff at "Bodies Revealed" to a car park, where the organ was found in a plastic bag.
"They only told us that it was in a black plastic bag in the parking area of the same shopping center where the display was exhibited," said Susan Hoefken one of the curators.
The lung was stolen on Monday, but organizers said there was little concern it may rot or otherwise spoil, thanks to chemical treatment.
"The organ is preserved under an innovative process of polymerization that maintains the organs in a good state after coming under chemical treatment," said Hoefken.
The exhibition, billed as "a phenomenal exhibition about the amazing and complex machine we call the human body," includes real life specimens and has traveled the world.
Since June it has received 90,000 visitors in Peru alone.
