Ambergris is very rare to find. Christopher Kemp, author of Floating Gold: A Natural (and Unnatural) History of Ambergris, said that ascertaining whether what one has found is ambergris or not is very difficult. He said that the rock found by Gary and Angela may not be ambergris, as reported by CN
Date: Apr 15, 2016
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Boy Finds Ambergris, Valuable Fragrant Rock from Whale Poop, on Beach
Headlines like Moby Sick Makes Boy Rich reveal the popular misconception of ambergris as whale vomit. Its poop, Christopher Kemp, a molecular biologist told ABC News. Kemp is the author of the book Floating Gold: the Natural (and Unnatural) History of Ambergris. He dubbed the process of creat
"The problem with trying to describe the smell of ambergris is that it really only smells like ambergris," Christopher Kemp, a biologist and neuroscientist who's written a book about the substance, told Bloomberg Businessweek's Eric Spitznagel.