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 ...
DNA evidence shows that jetsam ambergris comes from sperm whales. By Joshua Sokol Every so often, a fatberg-esque blob of material called ambergris washes up on a beach. These lumps, used to make ...
THEY say, where there’s muck, there’s brass. Anyone who has stumbled upon ambergris will confirm this. The weathered whale excrement is extremely rare, but it can be found on beaches in many parts of ...