'Gold' worth $543,000 found in dead whale on Canary Islands shore
Al Mayadeen English
Ambergris, a rare substance often known as floating gold, is and has been the treasure of perfumers for centuries, and the one Fernández found was worth about €500,000 ($543,442).
A humpback whale leaps out of the water in the channel off the town of Lahaina on the island of Maui in Hawaii in 2005 (AP)
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