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 ...

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The digestive substance is extremely rare and highly valued in the perfume market. The professor said he wanted to sell the ambergris and give the profits to the town he found it in. A scientist in ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. A huge bounty of ambergris—often called "whale vomit"—that was seized ...

Ambergris, the fabled “floating gold”, might sound like something straight out of a tall tale, yet its real-life story is stranger and more interesting than fiction. Sometimes called whale vomit, ...

Residents were stunned to find a huge piece of floating ambergris. Gabriel Kilat found the whale vomit while it was surrounded by sharks off the coast of Tibpuan in Sultan Kudarat, the Philippines.

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 ...