Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The reason why mass strandings occur is still unknown The grim task of clearing hundreds of washed-up whale carcasses was under ...

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

TikTok creator Jacob Colvin filmed dozens of people attempting to turn the whale’s tail so it can catch the rising tide Marine biologist Carrie Newell warns that touching a whale is dangerous, illegal ...

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, ...

A dramatic rescue attempt on the Oregon Coast is drawing national attention after TikTok creator Jacob Colvin — known online as @Jake.pnw — captured the frantic efforts to save a stranded humpback ...

YACHATS Ore. (KPTV) - A beached humpback whale near Yachats was euthanized Monday afternoon, according to a state official. Jim Rice, the program director of OSU’s Oregon Marine Mammal Stranding ...

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 ...

The bizarre, blubber-filled story behind Oregon’s 1970 Exploding Whale Incident This is the crazy story of the 1970 Exploding Whale Incident in Florence, Oregon. It’s been 55 years since Oregon state ...