Timmy the whale, recently deceased, could explode soon. “The pressure inside is building up more and more, and at some point the animal could explode with a huge bang,” whale researcher Fabian Ritter ...

Home to the Oregon coast’s infamous exploding whale incident, Florence has a lot more going for it than its most notorious footnote. About a three-hour drive south from Portland, the coastal city ...

A humpback whale nicknamed Timmy that has been stranded in the Baltic Sea off Germany will be left to die; all rescue efforts have been called off, according to Till Backhaus, environment minister of ...

In early March, a young male humpback whale appeared where humpback whales are not supposed to be: in the Baltic Sea, just off the coast of Wismar, in northern Germany. The animal—forty feet long 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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A humpback whale nicknamed Timmy that has been stranded in the Baltic Sea off Germany will be left to die; all rescue efforts have ...

A bowhead whale harvested by Inuit whalers in Alaska in 2007 carried a remarkable secret. Embedded in its body were fragments ...

Since March, the world has watched live as a humpback whale lay stranded on a sandbank in German waters, far from the North Sea. The stranded humpback whale was found in poor health, tangled in ...

One afternoon in November, just north of the small Oregon coastal town of Yachats, a juvenile humpback whale tumbled ashore. A few hours earlier, local residents had spotted it thrashing in distress ...

Time is of the essence: the whale off the Danish coast is in danger of exploding. The dead animal was originally supposed to be brought ashore, but Denmark’s environment and nature agency and the ...