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A widely reported case of an exploding whale occurred in Florence, Oregon, in November 1970, when the Oregon Highway Division (now the Oregon Department of Transportation) blew up a decaying sperm whale with dynamite in an attempt to dispose of its rotting carcass. The explosion threw whale flesh around 800 feet (240 metres) away, and its odor ...
The humpback that washed up dead in Long Beach this week has been identified as NYC0393, a playful and spirited cetacean who had become familiar to whale watchers last summer for her acrobatic ...
A dead humpback whale washed up on a Long Island beach on Monday, Long Beach police said. A young humpback whale washed ashore in Long Beach on Monday morning — with authorities now working to ...
If a whale is beached near an inhabited locality, the rotting carcass can pose a nuisance as well as a health risk. Such very large carcasses are difficult to move. The whales are often towed back out to sea away from shipping lanes, allowing them to decompose naturally, or they are towed out to sea and blown up with explosives.
Scientists don't know what killed a humpback whale that washed up on Block Island.
Here is a gallery of Skorochod's photos of the washed up whale. This article originally appeared on Salisbury Daily Times: Whale carcass washes up on beach near Assateague State Park Show comments
A dead gray whale found washed up and decomposing near a beach in the San Francisco Bay Area was likely killed due to blunt force trauma from a “vessel strike”.. The 40-foot long adult female ...
Less than a day after a dead humpback whale was found rolling in the surf of Virginia Beach, a second dead whale washed up down the shore. Scientists are working to figure out how they died.