On November 12, 1970, in Florence, Oregon, a 45-foot, eight-ton sperm whale washed up on the beach. At the time, this beach ...

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. The ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The sight. The scavengers. The smell. These were the main problems Oregonians were facing when a dead sperm whale washed up on a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Happy botched whale corpse disposal day to you and yours. Just last year, Florence Mayor Rob Ward stood in front of a small crowd ...

After a week of heartache following the stranding of hundreds of whales on the New Zealand coast, an estimated 200 pilot whales managed to swim away over the weekend, according to the Department of ...

A young humpback whale that washed ashore Saturday in Oregon had to be euthanized after two days of rescue efforts. The whale, a roughly 1 to 2-year-old humpback, had surfaced near San Marine ...

In an attempt to solve a “whale-sized” problem, Oregon officials blew up a beached whale with dynamite. What followed was chaos, carnage, and airborne blubber ...

YACHATS Ore. (KPTV) - A beached humpback whale near Yachats was euthanized Monday afternoon, according to a state official. Jim Rice, the program director of OSU’s Oregon Marine Mammal Stranding ...