Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Happy botched whale corpse disposal day to you and yours. Just last year, Florence Mayor Rob Ward stood in front of a small crowd ...

The corpse of a gray whale washed ashore near Florence this week, Oregon State Parks confirmed, and its cause of death remains under investigation. Oregon State Parks learned that the gray whale ...

A dead male sperm whale estimated to be about 40 to 50 feet long is currently anchored on a north shore beach on Nantucket while scientists determine what to do with it. Members of Marine Mammal ...

On May 30, 1957, the Los Angeles Times reported that the body of “distinguished film producer and director James Whale” had been found floating in the swimming pool at his home in Pacific Palisades.

A whale carcass was found floating in the middle of a major New York City-area port that’s one of the busiest in the country.

Whales are some of the largest known creatures to exist (or, in the case of the blue whale, to have ever existed) on Earth, with some species weighing up to 200 tons—and while many find the mammals ...

In May 1925, a strange decaying corpse washed ashore on Moore’s Beach, now known as Natural Bridges State Beach, in Santa Cruz. Locals who swarmed out to investigate the specimen described elephantine ...

Josh Fergusson is a quietly angry man. His surf community is just the most recent to face the prospect of a dead whale lingering in their backyard. The whale, a 10-metre juvenile humpback, washed up ...