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Couple expected to fetch Dh257,000 for whale vomit?
Its more like poop, and it comes from the same place as poop.
A couple in the UK are set to fetch an estimated $70,000 (Dh257,000) for whale vomit!
The couple chanced upon this seemingly filthy - yet rare substance - when taking a long walk on the beach and picked it up assuming it was a piece of rock, CNN reported.
According to Christopher Kemp, author of "Floating Gold: A Natural (and Unnatural) History of Ambergris", the rock could be ambergris, a rare substance used to make perfumes last longer on the skin.
"Ambergris is definitely not vomit," he told CNN.
"It's more like poop, and it comes from the same place as poop, but it's only made by a small percentage of sperm whales, as a result of indigestion."
The couple, Gary and Angela Williams, followed a pungent smell while walking on Middleton Sands beach near Morecambe Bay that led them to what they believe to be a large lump of ambergris.
"Ambergris feels a little waxy, and smells very complex: a mixture of dung and the ocean, and old wood, and tobacco, and moist earth, and ozone," Kemp said.
The substance, often called "floating gold," is produced only by a tiny percentage of sperm whales.
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