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 ...

Police arrested three people who possessed ambergris, otherwise known as "whale vomit." A rare substance produced only by a small percentage of sperm whales, ambergris forms in a whale's digestive ...

Ambergris is a wax-like substance that has long held value in the perfume industry thanks to its valor as a fixative. (That is, as an ingredient that enhances a given scent’s shelf life.) Enhancing ...

A TROOP of Yemeni fishermen struck gold when they found a floating treasure worth over $1.5 million – in the belly of a sperm whale carcass. The mammal had a huge stash of the highly sought-after ...

A group of Yemeni fishermen had their lives changed with whale vomit. The odorous organic material – also known as ambergris – came from a sperm whale carcass in the Gulf of Aden, according to the BBC ...

The odd, enduring appeal of a scarce commodity few people use and no one really needs Text by Mark Wilding, Illustrations by Aurélie Beatley, Hakai In a sparsely furnished office building in the ...

Three smugglers were caught with 5.7 kilograms (12.6 pounds) of ambergris in a village in Goa, India, according to Goa News Hub. Police arrested three people who possessed ambergris, otherwise known ...