On Nov. 12, 1970, a sperm whale carcass was blown to pieces on the Oregon coast, sending huge chunks of blubber falling not just onto innocent bystanders, but into the history books. It’s hard to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Oregon is known nationally for its trees and outdoor recreation, but what about the exploding whale? In November 1970, a dead ...

Television reporter Paul Linnman in Portland, Ore., was on the scene 35 years ago when authorities attempted to blow up a dead whale on the beach with dynamite, creating a blubber shower. Sometimes ...

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Back in November 1970, a dead, 45-foot-long whale washed ashore on a beach in Florence, Oregon. The behemoth aquatic mammal, however, unfortunately did not wash back out to sea, and, to remove it, ...

Nothing says "let nature take its course" quite so poorly as a bundle of dynamite. It is the 51st anniversary of the infamous detonation of dynamite near a stinking whale carcass on a beach near ...

PORTLAND, Ore — On Nov. 9, 1970, a 45-foot sperm whale had washed up on the beach near Florence, but as KATU reporter Paul Linnman noted at the time, it later became "a stinking whale of a ...