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One that almost got away
The big fish is coming back. The Vanderbilt Museum is getting ready to unveil a 32-foot whale shark specimen that has been restored from heavy damage that almost did it in.
The big fish is coming back.
On Saturday, 73 years to the day that a 32-foot whale shark was caught off Fire Island, a newly restored taxidermic specimen of it will be unveiled at the Suffolk County Vanderbilt Museum in Centerport.
The fish, believed to be the world's largest specimen of taxidermy, has been the centerpiece of the museum's Diorama Hall, which closed to the public in...
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