Officials planned to blast the carcass to smithereens and let the seagulls finish the job. Instead, the crowd, the dunes and one parked car all took the hit.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Timmy the humpback whale's bloated carcass. Timmy the whale, recently deceased, could explode soon due to the buildup of gas from ...

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 ...

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 ...

EUGENE, ORE – On March 23, when the Eugene Emeralds announced their Exploding Whales alternate identity, they figured it would create some regional buzz. Those expectations were immediately blown out ...

Timmy the whale, recently deceased, is at risk of exploding soon. The young humpback whale that first captured the internet's attention after becoming stranded in shallow waters of the Baltic Sea off ...