The rare substance, which is normally found floating in the sea, is used in high-end perfumes. Here's what makes it so expensive. After a dead sperm whale washed up on a beach on the Spanish Island of ...

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 ...

Discovered by a South Australian Museum staffer, a fist-sized lump of white ambergris, prized for centuries as a medicine, aphrodisiac and perfume, “popped out during the rotting process’’, said ...

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Kavaratti: Kerala Forest officials have arrested three people from the Lakshadweep islands in Kochi in connection with sale of whale ambergris worth over Rs 1 crore. In a release, Department of ...

Ambergris Caye, Belize, is a small island in the Caribbean surrounded by turquoise waters and skirted along its eastern side by the longest barrier reef in the Western Hemisphere. Living on Ambergris, ...