On the banks of Little Whanganui River, on New Zealand's remote West Coast, the fossilized ribs and vertebrae of a whale have been embedded in a shelf of sandstone for about 23 million years.That is, until Sunday.As flabbergasted local residents watched, two men, armed with a rock saw and chisel, cut the fossil out of the rock in broad daylight, before rowing it down the river to a trailer, where a woman was waiting, and driving away.
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