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Sea pork washes up on Hervey Bay beach but people think it’s ambergris
A Queensland woman was excited she might have stumbled across a blob worth a lot of money.
The woman shared a photo of the strange sea creature that had washed up on a Hervey Bay beach and asked people if they thought it was a dangerous stonefish.
But most people believed the jelly-looking find to be ambergris.
Ambergris is an intestinal slurry ejected by sperm whales that eventually hardens in the water.
It is sought after by perfume companies and worth about $US20 per gram.
In 2016, a family on…
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