It was an unusual contribution to the growing body of evidence that bowhead whales, as well as being among the largest whales ...

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. An ...

On November 12, 1970, a 45-foot, 8-ton sperm whale washed ashore near Florence, Oregon, posing a major disposal challenge. The Oregon Highway Division decided to blow it up with half a ton of dynamite ...

Man behind Oregon's infamous exploding whale dies By Elizabeth Chuck, Staff Writer, NBC News An engineer who blew up a whale carcass in Oregon using some 20 cases of dynamite has died, but the biggest ...

A California photographer captured a whale breaching in San Francisco Bay Friday afternoon between the Golden Gate Bridge and Alcatraz Island.