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 ...

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 ...

Whales carry quite a bit of bacteria and parasites. They’re a pretty big ecosystem on their own when they’re swimming in the ocean, so there’s a lot of stuff on whales that you probably don’t want to ...

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 ...

Another whale has died after becoming beached on the coast of the Jersey Shore, according to officials with the Marine Mammal Stranding Center. The agency says they received a report from the New ...