In 1970, officials in Oregon thought they had found the perfect solution to a massive whale carcass that had washed ashore: 450 kilograms of TNT. What happened next became one of the strangest and ...

Explosions are messy at the best of times, but when the thing exploding is an animal, or part of an animal, it rarely ends ...

"[It must be] at least 14 feet based on the size of the head and the size of the bite mark the shark left behind." ...

A whale breached beneath the stern of the boat and struck the vessel on July 4, causing what the fire department described as ...

The Kruzof stranding wasn’t the only one this summer. A second beaked whale was found beached in Yakutat in early June.

This is the third humpback whale to wash ashore on the California coast since the beginning of June. The first was a deceased ...

Early Sunday morning a deceased whale came ashore on Crescent Beach approximately 250 yards north of the Fred Benson Beach Pavilion. The carcass was badly decayed, but onlookers suspect it ...