Officials planned to blast the carcass to smithereens and let the seagulls finish the job. Instead, the crowd, the dunes and ...

An enormous dead sperm whale washed ashore in Oregon, leaving officials with a problem they had never faced before. Instead of burying or removing the carcass, they decided to use half a ton of ...

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 ...