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Archaeologists dig up 200-year-old skeleton of London's Moby Dick
David Keys: Remarkable discoveries on the River Thames foreshore at Greenwich indicate that London was the final resting place, some two centuries ago, of a giant whale the size of the legendary Moby Dick
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