Jul 8, 2023 · A professor found a lump of ambergris, or "floating gold," worth 500,000 euros in a dead whale. The rare substance, which is normally found floating in the sea, is used in high-end perfumes.

Jul 5, 2023 · Experts have found a rare and valuable substance sometimes referred to as "floating gold" inside a dead sperm whale. The animal washed ashore on the Spanish island of La Palma—located in the...

Aug 26, 2010 · Robert G. Bachand, author of “Northeast Lights, Lighthouses and Lightships Rhode Island to Cape May, New Jersey,” wrote “on a cold January evening, about 15 years before the establishment of Whale Rock Light [in 1882], the schooner Pearl struck the rock and tore a large hole in its hull.

Jul 9, 2024 · Our study involved a dead whale floating towards Queensland’s Sunshine Coast in July last year. The remains were identified as a 14-metre long female humpback, likely killed by a ship strike.

Sep 19, 2013 · In Narragansett Bay, 74-year-old lighthouse keeper Walter Eberle was never found after the 117-year-old Whale Rock Lighthouse tower was swept away in the storm. People and places simply vanished, swallowed by the waves or buried by shifting sands.

Oct 31, 2024 · Biologists spent much of Thursday afternoon dissecting a 30-foot humpback whale that washed up just west of the Elephant Rock Beach Club late Wednesday or early Thursday. The large juvenile lay about 500 yards west of the beach club parking lot.

Apr 19, 2021 · South Surrey’s Paul Cottrell, who works with the DFO, tows a grey whale out of Semiahmoo Bay Sunday. (Contributed photo)

May 24, 2017 · Scientists have been puzzling over what makes some rocks float for years. You might think that rocks sink in water – but some can float along at the surface for years. Now scientists have...

Aug 5, 2022 · The 3 Whale Rocks At the summit of Sam Wan Mountain, in Bueng Kan Province, Thailand, there are three rock masses evoking floating whales that formed about 75 million years ago.

Apr 19, 2021 · Animal has been dead since at least April 15. Aaron Hinks Apr 19, 2021 4:30 PM. Share by Email