Happy botched whale corpse disposal day to you and yours. Just last year, Florence Mayor Rob Ward stood in front of a small crowd at Exploding Whale Memorial Park to announce that the whole month of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The sight. The scavengers. The smell. These were the main problems Oregonians were facing when a dead sperm whale washed up on a ...

Fifty-five years ago, a dead sperm whale washed ashore near Florence — and what happened next became one of the most infamous moments in state history. Engineers from the Oregon Highway Division, ...

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Watch video of Oregon's exploding whale Oregon officials tried to dispose of a whale by blowing it up with dynamite. The rest is history.

A humpback whale that spent Saturday tumbling in the surf off the coast near Yachats, tangled in fishing gear, and washed ashore alive was still breathing as of 5:30 p.m. Sunday, according to experts ...

A humpback whale washed ashore Saturday night on San Marine, Ore., entangled in crabbing gear, according to witnesses and local officials. The whale, still alive but in distress, has drawn attention ...