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A bloated and dead humpback whale was spotted floating off the Oregon coast, officials said. It washed ashore Monday, May 27, at Nehalem Bay State Park and ended up within a protected nesting area ...
1970 whale explosion in Florence, Oregon, filmed by KATU news, one of the most widely reported cases of the exploding whale phenomenon. This explosion was intentionally caused using dynamite, but whale carcasses may also burst on their own. There have been several cases of exploding whale carcasses due to a buildup of gas in the decomposition ...
The whale had large bites taken out of its abdomen.
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 ...
Post-mortem explosions, like that of a beached whale, are the result of the build-up of natural gases created by methane-producing bacteria inside the carcass during the decomposition process. [2] Natural explosions which occur while an animal is living may be defense-related. A number of toads in Germany and Denmark exploded in April 2005. [3]
The Navy accepted blame agreeing that the dead whales experienced acoustically induced hemorrhages around the ears. [6] The resulting disorientation probably led to the stranding. Ken Balcomb, a cetologist, specializes in the killer whale populations that inhabit the Strait of Juan de Fuca between Washington and Vancouver Island. [15]
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 ...
On November 21, 2013, people of Domunli, a coastal community in the Nzema East Municipality in the Western Region, held a funeral for a 10.4 meter long dead sperm whale that has washed ashore at the beach. This was the 21st dead whale washed ashore on the coast of Ghana since 2009.