Explosions are messy at the best of times, but when the thing exploding is an animal, or part of an animal, it rarely ends ...
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 ...
A juvenile sperm whale stranded at Hilton Head Island in May 2025. What scientists found during the necropsy raises bigger ...
Home to the Oregon coast’s infamous exploding whale incident, Florence has a lot more going for it than its most notorious footnote. About a three-hour drive south from Portland, the coastal city ...
In 1970, officials in Oregon thought they had found the perfect solution to a massive whale carcass that had washed ashore: 450 kilograms of TNT. What happened next became one of the strangest and ...