Due to the scarcity of the whale vomit, a gram is worth around $27 — and a pound could be worth over $10,000. While ambergris can be extremely hard to find, some people have struck floating gold. 4.

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It’s what’s inside that counts. A lump of vomit that may be worth over $250,000 was found inside a beached sperm whale after it appeared on Nogales Beach in La Palma, Canary Islands, last month.

Many experts believe that whales regurgitate it, hence the name whale vomit. Others think they release it from the other end of their digestive tract. Read more ...

Ambergris, found in around one in 100 sperm whales, ... 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.

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News; World news; Whales; Mega-rare lump of whale vomit worth £400,000 washes up on beach in Canary Islands A group of scientists gutted an enormous 43ft, 20 tonne sperm whale after it washed up ...