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Valuable Discovery? Lump Found On Falmouth Beach Could Be Expensive Ambergris
His uncle walked over, picked it up, and broke off a piece. Inside, it looked like yellow sponge cake.
BOSTON — When young Dylan Duato and some friends spotted an unusual blob on a Falmouth beach recently, they couldn’t figure it out. “I took my foot, and I kind of pushed against it a little bit with my foot,” Dylan said. “And it had kind of like a spongy feeling.”
His uncle walked over, picked it up, and broke off a piece. Inside, it looked like yellow sponge cake. So the family started googling. “We’ve had it for two or three weeks now and it seems like it’s headed more toward the ambergris,” said Paul Duato, Dylan’s father.
Ambergris. It’s poop from only a sperm whale, and it’s worth a ton of money to perfume manufacturers.
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