Mumbai: The Dapoli customs division seized a little over 4kg of ambergris worth over ₹5 crore from Goa fort near Harnai beach at Ratnagiri’s Dapoli village on August 12. Ambergris, also known as ...

Whale, you’ll never believe what makes certain perfumes and colognes smell so good. A rare, waxy material called ambergris — known as “floating gold,” it’s something of a treasure in the fragrance ...

Ambergris is often described as one of the world’s strangest natural occurrences. It is produced by sperm whales and has been used for centuries, but for many years its origin remained a mystery.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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We don’t often associate the anus with pleasant aromas. But for select members of a certain species of cetacean, that orifice can be the source of the world’s most sought after scent. While the odor ...

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 ...