When an eight-ton sperm whale washed ashore on the Oregon coast, officials believed dynamite was the fastest way to remove the rotting carcass. Instead, the massive explosion launched huge pieces of whale hundreds of feet through the air,

An adult orca cruises near the surface of the clear, blue water, holding a large sunfish carcass in its mouth. Seconds later, it releases its prey, right in the path of another adult orca that’s torpedoing up from the depths.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A screen grab shows the bloated carcass of a dead humpback whale floating off the Danish island of Anholt. After unsuccessful attempts to remove it, the carcass of the humpback whale ...

Timmy the humpback whale's bloated carcass. Timmy the whale, recently deceased, is at risk of exploding soon. The young humpback whale that first captured the internet's attention after becoming stranded in shallow waters of the Baltic Sea off the coast of ...

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 sands at Farewell Spit where the nearly 700 pilot whales ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. (CNN) — Conservation officials have been puncturing the carcasses of hundreds of dead pilot whales ...