Exploding whales—they boast a fairly brief, but dramatic history on the internet. Of course, who could forget this horrifying, totally disgusting, but oddly compelling video of a sperm whale carcass ...

The word “meme” didn’t exist when Paul Linnman and Doug Brazil—a KATU-TV reporter and cameraman, respectively—chartered a flight from Portland to Florence one cool November day in 1970, and the notion ...

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 ...

The carcass of a sperm whale washed ashore on Nantucket Sunday, prompting recovery operations by officials and wildlife groups, according to a local nonprofit. The whale is male and likely a juvenile, ...

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 ...

The Shire of Waroona in Western Australia has suggested to the state government that a rotting whale carcass be towed out to sea and blown up, as a means of disposal. The decaying whale washed up a ...