On November 9, 1970, a gray whale about 45 feet (13.7 meters) long was washed ashore on the coast of the town of Florence, Oregon, USA. Oregon officials, who were in trouble, decided to 'explode the ...

The grim task of clearing hundreds of washed-up whale carcasses was under way in New Zealand Tuesday, with the beach closed over fears the bodies will fill with gas and explode as they decompose. An ...

A 100-year-old harpoon embedded in an ancient creature reveals shocking secrets about survival and resilience through history ...

You've heard of whale watching, in which tourists come from far and wide to see the majestic marine mammals in action. Well, they also apparently don't mind looking at them when they are dead and ...

Man behind Oregon's infamous exploding whale dies By Elizabeth Chuck, Staff Writer, NBC News An engineer who blew up a whale carcass in Oregon using some 20 cases of dynamite has died, but the biggest ...