When a whale dies in the ocean, an ecosystem grows around its sunken carcass. It’s an epic burial at sea, something ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

When a large marine mammal like a whale dies, its body drifts to the ocean floor in a process known as whale fall. For more than a decade, a succession of sea creatures will live off of the whale’s ...

WASHINGTON — Officials near a Nantucket beach have a whale-sized problem. That's not surprising considering the problem is literally a whale. A dead sperm whale washed up on the shore of the ...

The enormous carcass, believed to be a whale, was discovered on Wednesday morning lying on the sands of Cefn Sidan Beach in Pembrey, Carmarthenshire. One shocked beachgoer who came across the animal ...