Boy set for windfall after finding €50,000 whale vomit

An eight-year-old boy has discovered a piece of whale vomit worth $63,400 (€50,400) .

Boy set for windfall after finding €50,000 whale vomit

An eight-year-old boy has discovered a piece of whale vomit worth $63,400 (€50,400) .

Charlie Naysmith found the ambergris - the technical term for such a substance thrown up by sperm whales - during a walk along on a beach near Bournemouth, South England, and he is expecting to make a pound of the chunk is expected to sell for as much as $10,000 (€7,950).

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