Beached whales can present a danger to humans even after the ocean mammals are dead. Because methane gas builds up inside whale carcasses after they die, they can easily explode in a shower of ...

Oceanfront communities in Canada and elsewhere have had to deal with exploding whales on their beaches, and this is partly why officials try to tow beached whales back to sea when possible ...

A dead blue whale washed up on the shore of a small fishing town in Newfoundland last week. A bloated, beached, blubbery bomb of a blue whale. As of 3:30 pm Eastern Time today, the carcass is ...

No, authorities in Oregon are certainly not blowing up a beached whale carcass with dynamite — again — like officials near the coastal town of Florence decided to do in 1970.

An Oregon highway engineer who blew up a dead beached whale with a half-ton of dynamite in 1970 has died at the age of 84. George Thomas Thornton gained national attention over the exploding whale ...

What we do know, though, is that they keep exploding. A brief history of the beached whale Beaching isn't just a whale-related phenomenon -- every year, around 2000 animals beach themselves.

A stinking whale carcass, a half ton of dynamite and an immortal local TV newscast — half a century later and the world is still in love with Florence's most infamous moment.