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 ...

There are few things more romantic than a dead, beached whale that's full of gas. Enter Killam as Darren, an older surfer who urges Gadget to skip the bonfire and meet him on the beach by an unusual ...

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, ...

Eager to clear a popular beach in the US of a beached sperm whale, local authorities hatched upon a dramatic solution on November 12, 1970. The 14m sperm whale was too heavy and in too difficult a ...