With these viral stories of exploding whales, why aren’t they able to be removed before they actually explode? Whales are big—that’s the primary issue. And usually when they strand, they don’t strand ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. on November 9, 1970, officials in Florence, Oregon, decided a 45-foot-long stinky sperm whale needed to go. A whale that dies ...

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 ...

Fifty-five years ago, a dead sperm whale washed ashore near Florence — and what happened next became one of the most infamous moments in state history. Engineers from the Oregon Highway Division, ...

Happy botched whale corpse disposal day to you and yours. Just last year, Florence Mayor Rob Ward stood in front of a small crowd at Exploding Whale Memorial Park to announce that the whole month of ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. (CNN) — Conservation officials have been ...

In 1970, a 45-foot, 8-ton sperm whale washed ashore near Florence, Oregon. The Oregon State Highway Division decided to dispose of the carcass using dynamite. Florence will celebrate the 55th ...

Reporter Paul Linnman and photographer Doug Brazil visited the Oregon Coast on November 12, 1970 during what eventually became known as the Exploding Whale Incident. (KATU) FLORENCE, Ore. (Amazing ...