A very expensive ingredient found in high-end perfumes that comes from whales may have been discovered by a diver taking a walk on the beach after Hurricane Milton. Kristen Marvin believes she sound ...

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 ...

Heard of Moby Dick? Well, how about Moby's sick? Ambergris is formed in the intestines of whales and is expelled when the animal can't regurgitate food. It can be found floating on the sea or washed ...

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 small percentage of sperm whales produce ambergris, a clump of squid beaks and fatty secretions that likely exits through the whales' bowels. It's coveted by perfumers for its unique scent. Quality ...

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 ...