One whale’s vomit is another man’s treasure. A fisherman in Scotland was walking his dog along the beach in Ayrshire when his dog found a “disgusting” blob on the beach — which might be a highly ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A professor found a lump of ambergris, or "floating gold," worth 500,000 euros in a dead whale. The rare substance, which is ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A rare, waxy material called ambergris — known as “floating gold,” it’s something of a treasure in the fragrance industry — can ...

A scientist in the Canary Islands discovered a 21-pound lump of whale vomit worth around $544,000 in the intestines of a beached sperm whale. Antonio Fernández, a professor from the University of Las ...

Ambergris, that versatile sperm whale excretion that Herman Melville wrote so prodigiously about when the ocean was just a Dave & Buster’s for murdering sperm whales, can be a pretty valuable ...

A father from Scotland claims to have discovered a rare chunk of whale vomit worth more than $50,000 — but experts have told him it’s nothing but “sewage grease.” Ronnie Humphreys, 42, says the nearly ...