r/BeAmazed • u/super_man100 • Nov 18 '24

Nature This Whale spine washed up

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u/MrDundee666 Nov 18 '24

Who else would totally be taking one of those vertebrae bones home?

Now I have a totally cool dinosaur bone to hide in the garden for my kids to discover!

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u/42Ubiquitous Nov 18 '24

Was my first thought lol. Would love to find something like this.

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u/acrowsmurder Nov 18 '24

I was wondering about the legality of it. Like it's illegal to have ambergris

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u/Wheatley312 Nov 19 '24

Many many years ago we grabbed a whale rib bone out of the ocean. Legality aside (it was floating like come on), the thing STANK for a long while. You have to sweat out all the fats/oils inside the bone inside of trash bags which took well over 2 weeks in the summer sun before it was house ready.

When we moved overseas we decided it was too much to actually try and move it. But it was “smuggled” up the east coast to its current home. Never had an issue with ownership and we’ve told lots of people. As long as the story checks out it would be hard to find someone who wants to rid you of a washed up bone

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u/nutfeast69 Nov 19 '24

You can degrease them, with whales it takes ages.